Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of… — Rollo May
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in… — Gary Snyder
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best… — Malcolm Gladwell
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms… — Jostein Gaarder
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the… — Siri Hustvedt
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of… — Josh McDowell
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon.… — Rick Riordan
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as… — Rollo May
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways… — Rollo May
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. — David Mitchell
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that… — Joseph Campbell
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard. — Jeaniene Frost
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Albert Einstein

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