Mythology Quotes · Page 6

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more…

— Madeline Miller

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

— Allen Tate

“How do you know?” I look at him like he’s one Centaur short of a herd. “Soothsayer, remember? I know stuff.”

— Amanda Bouchet

“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.”

— Priya Ardis

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

— Richard King

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

— Marshall McLuhan

“She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.”

— Donna Leon

“I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.”

— Nely Cab

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was…

— Joan D. Vinge

In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was…

— Hyman Rickover

“My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my…

— Ahmed Aziz Ahmed

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

“It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together,…

— M.C. Sburlea

“He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the…

— Lisa Kessler

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses…

— W. H. Auden

I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition…

— Charles Eisenstein

There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not…

— Joseph Campbell

“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch…

— Colin Bord

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up…

— Toby Lester

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…

— Judith Crist

Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams…

— Gary Valentine

“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where…

— John Milton

“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the…

— Cole J. Davis

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”

— Priya Ardis

“The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.”

— Christina L. Farley

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”

— Joanne M. Harris

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

— Stephen Fry

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

— Julianne Malveaux

You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

— Robert Crumb

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

— Hermann Hesse

“I wasn’t made for Griffin, and he wasn’t made for me. We were made for each other.”

— Amanda Bouchet

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

— Carl Jung

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

“Do you know what I have in my heart? I have hope. And I'll share it with the world.”

— Amanda Bouchet

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros