Myth Quotes · Page 21

“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”

— Virgil

There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary.

— Frans Timmermans

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

— Sondre Lerche

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

— Wislawa Szymborska

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.

— Sean Dyche

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

— Alexander Chee

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

— Audre Lorde

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach…

— Craig Finn

“The great mythologist Joseph Campbell stated 'Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human…

— Sophie Cornish

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace…

— Paul Laffoley

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it…

— Thomas Mann

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and…

— James Hillman

“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks.…

— Siri Hustvedt

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money…

— Salman Rushdie

In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,…

— Allan Kaprow

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:…

— Zadie Smith

Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and…

— Edith Hall

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much…

— John Lennon

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips…

— Julian Baggini

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though…

— Bernie Siegel M.D

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By…

— George Carlin

“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The…

— Joseph Campbell

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

— Neil Gaiman

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

— Albert Camus

“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy”

— Christina Rossetti

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in…

— Al Goldstein

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

— Erich Fromm

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

— Martin O'Malley

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

— V. S. Pritchett

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

— Jimmy Carter

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or…

— William Hurt

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and…

— C. G. Jung

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

— Robert Penn Warren

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

— Tom Driberg

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer