Common Quote by Carl Jung

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

— Janet Morris

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the…

— Joseph Campbell

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the…

— Robert Jordan

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without careful definition…

— R.W.L. Moberly

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

“Motifs recur in independent fashion because they are universal. And when such events actually happen, people like to tell of them. Equally evident, however,…

— Joshua A. Berman

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in…

— Maynard James Keenan