Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. — Carl Jung
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf
All things fade and quickly turn to myth. — Marcus Aurelius
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,… — Steven Tyler
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a… — Ha-Joon Chang
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. — Stacy Schiff
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle
Like mold on books, grow myths on history. — Laini Taylor
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned… — Henry Jenkins
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to… — Jennifer Weiner
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — J.R.R. Tolkien
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his… — Anais Nin
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray… — Frances Hardinge
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in… — Erin Morgenstern
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of… — Stephenie Meyer
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old… — Terri Windling
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is… — Jeanette Winterson
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

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