Mythological Quotes

34 quotes from 30 authors

When ancient stories echo in modern thought, these thirty‑four brief lines capture that resonance. Thirty different contributors each add a snippet that bridges past legends with present reflections.

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“he knew that fate was only a mythological concept”

Dean Koontz

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Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

W. H. Auden

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“Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.”

Sylvia Plath

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I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

Kobe Bryant

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I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

Kamal Haasan

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I have never played any mythological character in my career.

Suhasini Mulay

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Mythological shows take a lot from you.

Shaheer Sheikh

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New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.

Paul Dano

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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Eugene Delacroix

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Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Joseph Campbell

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I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Jordan Peterson

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The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

Robert Lepage

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“Cryptozoology 101: It’s an exciting class because it’s mythological, and may or may not exist.”

Jarod Kintz

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I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite…

Shaheer Sheikh

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It is very difficult to shoot mythological shows. The costumes and the make up are very time consuming... It definitely takes a…

Puneet Issar

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“A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.”

Sai Marie Johnson

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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the…

Wole Soyinka

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“I am time the destroyer of all beings in all worlds, engaged to destroy all beings in this world; of those heroic…

Lord Krishna

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I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so…

Rick Riordan

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I keep getting many offers for TV soap operas, and strangely a lot of them are mythological. None seem to be interesting…

Pooja Bedi

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The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit…

Sudha Murty

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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs…

Northrop Frye

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Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize…

Joseph Campbell

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Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the…

Charles Soule

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Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that…

Derek Landy

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“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water…

Mollie Hunter

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Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to…

John Cowper Powys

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“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,…

Joseph Campbell

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When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or…

Godfrey Higgins

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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what…

Patty Jenkins

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“When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We…

Chelsie Shakespeare

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“I am just a mythological creature, after all. I technically shouldn't exist.”

Maggie Stiefvater

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Growing up... you see Bubka as almost this mythological creature. He was not real in the things that he was doing, they…

Armand Duplantis

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Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to…

Joseph Campbell

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