Myth Quotes · Page 18

“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.”

— Priscilla Vogelbacher

“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.”

— John Pirillo

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

— Cassandra Clare

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!

— Nikita Dutta

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that…

— Robert Bly

“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of…

— Tom Cheetham

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual…

— Anne Fortier

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access…

— Zephyr Teachout

You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..."…

— Rainbow Rowell

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street…

— Joseph Campbell

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born…

— Helen Morales

I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a…

— Chris Baio

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the…

— Robin Morgan

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function…

— Joseph Campbell

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of…

— Dorothy Allison

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend…

— Marilynne Robinson

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give…

— Anne Lamott

“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it…

— Robert N. Bellah

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

— Jessica Lange

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

— Alan Watts

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

— Colin Farrell

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

— Charles Rangel

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

— Hershel Shanks

“Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.”

— Allan Wesler

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

People think that if you are young, you don't know what is best for you. That's a myth.

— Declan McKenna

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan