Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere… — Yukiru Sugisaki
It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. — Jack Kerouac
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround… — John Pilger
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. — Walter Benjamin
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… — Albert Camus
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of… — Oscar Wilde
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. — John Fowles
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs,… — Carl Jung
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,… — Milan Kundera
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,… — C.S. Lewis
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the… — Joseph Campbell
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big… — Robert Penn Warren
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. — David Mitchell
Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever… — Alexandra Adornetto
You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said.… — Cassandra Clare
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea… — Rick Riordan
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that… — Karen Armstrong
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… — Mohsin Hamid
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? — Jennifer Egan
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and… — Marianne de Pierres
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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