Myth Quotes · Page 24

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

— Walter Benjamin

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to…

— Boris Pasternak

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

— Paul Gauguin

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real…

— Conor Oberst

“Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.”

— Aimee Cohen

There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious … possibly fun.

— Grass Hopper

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

— Russell M. Nelson

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that…

— Paul Ricoeur

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed…

— David Duchovny

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence…

— Gary Snyder

“In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be…

— G C Berkouwer

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In the end the myth didn’t matter. What mattered in reality was a person’s character, what he did with the life and…

— Julie Klassen

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I…

— Jim Carrey

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was…

— Van Morrison

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that…

— Bertrand Russell

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the…

— Joseph Campbell

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an…

— Mooji

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth…

— Jay Lake

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

— Zephyr Teachout

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”

— Patti Callahan

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

— Arjuna Ardagh

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

— Andre Alexis

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

— Anonymous

“Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You are the storm’s echo, and the fire’s breath. You are the hinge upon which the next world turns.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

— Howard Schultz

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

— Robert Penn Warren

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

— Zora Neale Hurston