Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the… — Michael Shermer
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet… — Christopher Isherwood
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of… — Milan Kundera
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you… — Peter Brook
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the… — Salman Rushdie
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the… — Joseph Campbell
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell… — Oscar Wilde
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was… — Jack Kerouac
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending)… — Francesca Lia Block
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the… — Karen Armstrong
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. — Theodor Adorno
Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. — Ursula K. Le Guin
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with… — Claudia Gray
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents — Aristotle
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. — Gregory David Roberts
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos… — Saul Bellow
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from… — Jeannette Walls
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell

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