We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. — Christine Downing Copy Share Image
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need… — Isadore Sharp Copy Share Image
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and… — Owen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand… — Jeff McBride Copy Share Image
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
