Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche
Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced. — Steven T. Katz
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that… — Guy Claxton
What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and… — Mary C. Neal
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience,… — David Shi
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend… — Bill Nighy
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. — Walter Lippmann
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely… — Hans Arp
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come… — Joseph Campbell
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. — Octavio Paz
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born... — Warren G. Bennis
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical… — Stanley Kubrick
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. — Northrop Frye
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is… — Julia Cameron
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about… — Zoe Kazan
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. — Gilbert Ryle
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from… — Garry Wills
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in… — Asger Jorn
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this… — Asger Jorn
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of… — Clinton Rossiter
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. — Marilyn Quayle
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code. — Denis MacShane

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