The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.” — Arthur Japin Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people… — Walther von Brauchitsch Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Then it’s decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro! — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
