“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths. — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of… — John Singleton Copy Share Image
“Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA. — Amish Tripathi 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
“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as… — Helen Morales 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
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
“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“National historical myths are a way of giving identity and more authenticity to a people. Exodus flattered the Jews half a millennium… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The myths of Hylas, Adonis, Lityerses, and Linus describes the annual mourning for the sacred king of his boy-surrogate, sacrificed to placate… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“There’s almost no evidence in literature to suggest that resistance training alters energy expenditure outside of the exercise session, significant enough to… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
