I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me. — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them? — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Its better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” — William Jevning Copy Share Image
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.” — Ashley Madau Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery… — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Myths, it transpired, are stronger than anyone could have imagined.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever…” quote by Ally Condie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10c/ally-condie-434_life_was-sisyphus-from-your-province-i-don-t_1386904.jpg)
