Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though… — Molly Harper
Myth is, after all, the neverending story. — Joan D. Vinge
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. — Josh Groban
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If… — BrenÃ© Brown
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and… — Joseph Campbell
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his… — Rollo May
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is… — Rollo May
I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth. — Barbra Streisand
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're… — Nahoko Uehashi
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its… — Leo Bogart
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of… — Jeanette Winterson
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a… — M. Scott Peck
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of… — Walker Evans
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose… — V.S. Naipaul
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or… — May Sarton
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four… — Michael Patrick King
We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get… — Daniel H. Pink
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten… — Luke Davies
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… — Alan Watts
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever… — Emma Goldman
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. — 2 Chainz
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a… — Seth Godin
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth. — Marlon Brando
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… — Joseph Campbell
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is… — D. H. Lawrence

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