Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count. — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and… — Mitski Copy Share Image
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
“In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it’s never examined or even noticed by… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“What are you? From where did you come? I have never seen anything like you.” The Creator Raven looked at Man and… — Eskimo creation myth Copy Share Image
There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image