Myth Quotes · Page 21

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

— John Geddes

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.

— Ana Navarro

I don't believe two actresses can be best friends. It's an absolute myth.

— Sameera Reddy

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

— Michael Tsarion

“A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.”

— T.R. Reid

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not…

— Charles Simic

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered…

— David Quammen

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story…

— Bruno Heller

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a…

— Anonymous

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of…

— Garry Wills

The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the…

— Babette Deutsch

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right…

— Jeff Bridges

Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a…

— David Bellamy

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales…

— Stanley Kubrick

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American…

— Arnold Aronson

“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions…

— Stephan Delbos

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon…

— Frank Herbert

I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of…

— Jonathon Keats

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that…

— Stanisław Lem

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

— Hannes Alfven

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

— Carl Jung

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

— Edd Roush

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

— Che Guevara

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

— Naomi Wolf

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

— William Devane

“Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Peopelnt think there butefuil that is a myth everybody is beautiful

— Anonymous

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

— Dean Koontz

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

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

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

— Jorge Valdano