Life Quote by Anthony Powell

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no…

— C. G. Jung

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

— Mark Rothko

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,…

— Karen Armstrong

“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.”

— Robert Roper

“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?”

— Sun Ra Arkestra

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…

— Anonymous