Myth Quotes · Page 14

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

— Natalie Angier

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?”

— Sun Ra Arkestra

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

— Bertrand Piccard

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

— Stephen Fry

“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”

— Allan Wesler

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,…

— Bertrand Russell

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.…

— Guillermo del Toro

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people…

— Jill Scott

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong…

— Jennifer Egan

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…

— Franz Boas

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard…

— Todd Rundgren

There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily…

— Brené Brown

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try…

— Kitty Kelley

In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.…

— Jack Kornfield

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has…

— Zoe Kazan

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never…

— Stanley Kunitz

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth…

— Naomi Wolf

For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or…

— Anonymous

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the…

— Michael Meade

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

— Kim Hyesoon

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

— Janis Joplin

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

— Samuel R. Delany

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

— John Major

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

Love is just a myth, true love on the other hand is a whole different story.

— Anonymous

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other…

— Oscar Isaac

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

— James Hillman

“Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.”

— Shayla Orick

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

— John Edgar Wideman

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own…

— Seth Green

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

— David Byrne

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

— Nathan Parsons

It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.

— Steven Gundry

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

— Rumi