Myth Quotes · Page 4

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

— Nancy Etcoff

“It is perilous to live past the end of your myth”

— Ann Carson

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

— Brigitte Bardot

“SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.”

— Ambrose Bierce

The moment there is imagination there is myth

— Camille Paglia

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

— Timothy Freke

If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.

— David Mitchell

“Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.”

— Aimee Cohen

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real…

— Conor Oberst

There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious … possibly fun.

— Grass Hopper

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I,…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

— Irwin Edman

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

— Brian Eno

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

— Walter Benjamin

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to…

— Joan D. Vinge

“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide…

— George Sheehan

Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the…

— Vine Deloria Jr

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based…

— Haley Barbour

“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role…

— Karen Armstrong

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that…

— Siri Hustvedt

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application…

— Arthur Jones

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately…

— Andrew Sullivan

“Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland. Rob Anybody just stared. “It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland…

— Terry Pratchett

The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would…

— William Lane Craig

Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it…

— Jonathon Keats

In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to…

— Philip French

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked…

— Karen Armstrong

“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh…

— Lavie Tidhar

If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What…

— Oliver Stone

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…

— Karen Armstrong

“It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.”

— Katie Cotugno

“Every myth is based on truth. And the ice hides many things”

— Lia Habel

No one has a good chin. That's a myth.

— Dan Hooker

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born...

— Warren G. Bennis

Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.

— David Starkey

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

— Michael Shermer