I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India. — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It’s right up there with… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien… — Louisa Burton Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player. — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it… — Steven Conrad Copy Share Image
A limit is a myth created by those who are not willing to try new things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them. Stop projecting sin to them.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
