Behinds Quote by Alonzo King

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try…

— Sue Monk Kidd

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the…

— Guillermo del Toro

“The rite, the becoming-animal of the scapegoat clearly illustrates this: a first expiatory animal is sacrificed, but a second is driven away, sent out…

— Gilles Deleuze

“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are…

— Arthur Machen

“She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them the bread…

— François Mauriac

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told him belong…

— Peter De Vries

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its…

— Thomas Mann

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of…

— Juvenal

“SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy! Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like god’s grace…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied…

— Charles de Lint