Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as… — Alfred Rosenberg
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you… — David Foster Wallace
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. — Wally Lamb
The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in… — Patrick Marber
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,… — L. Frank Baum
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the… — Tori Amos
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes… — Jacques Ellul
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents… — August Wilson
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail… — Herbert J. Muller
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to… — Isaac Asimov
It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your… — Deborah Bull
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist… — George Orwell
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. — W. Averell Harriman
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready… — Julie Ann Dawson
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked… — Catherynne M. Valente
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely… — Aleister Crowley
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith

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