Myth Quotes · Page 7

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

— Judith M Bardwick

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

— Hal Duncan

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

— Robert Fulghum

I think a myth is created from truth.

— Mark Lanegan

“It felt relaxing to be someone else’s myth.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

— Robert Anton Wilson

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of…

— Sam Shepard

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

— Richard Dawkins

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.

— Chris Claremont

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

— Edward Zwick

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

— Panos Cosmatos

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even…

— Eric Alterman

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be…

— Anonymous

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin…

— Edward Clodd

Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not…

— Melissa Farley

Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form.…

— Pat Williams

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of…

— Orson Bean

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush…

— Anne Carson

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're…

— Robert Redford

We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by…

— May Sarton

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have,…

— Sarah Kay

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to…

— Lev Shestov

The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved…

— Walt Simonson

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may…

— William Butler Yeats

“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who…

— Adolf Hitler

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth

— Milla Jovovich

“Myth is that which "diminishes the truth of salvation”

— G C Berkouwer

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

— Joseph Campbell

American myths have never been colorless.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

— Anonymous

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

— Marlon Brando

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

— Gregory David Roberts