Myth Quotes · Page 14

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

— Maya Deren

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

— James Hillman

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

— Gilbert Ryle

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy.…

— Ali Liebegott

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

— Luke Davies

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us…

— Phil Cousineau

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some…

— Brie Larson

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…

— John Boorman

Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple…

— Lloyd deMause

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather…

— Kamal Haasan

Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that,…

— William Robertson Smith

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems…

— David Lynch

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

— Joseph Campbell

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about…

— Roberto Calasso

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a…

— Chief Seattle

“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to…

— Italo Calvino

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses…

— Theodor Adorno

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief…

— Philip Larkin

I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers…

— Marina Warner

“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context…

— Karen Armstrong

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating…

— Merle Shain

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

— Stanley Crouch

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

— Jeaniene Frost

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

— Robert Heller

“Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire. Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.”

— Kimberly Pauley

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

— Diane Keaton

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.”

— Toba Beta

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

— Diane Guerrero