“Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up… — Maud Casey Copy Share Image
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock,… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I don't want to direct a Marvel movie. I don't care about those mythologies. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
