Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers… — Stephen King
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle.… — Richard Dawkins
It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here. — Diana Gabaldon
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be… — Tupac Shakur
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. — J.R.R. Tolkien
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus… — Rick Riordan
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to… — Frank Herbert
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. — Joseph Campbell
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not… — Naomi Wolf
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten… — Robert Jordan
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. — Anais Nin
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level,… — Alan Garner
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from… — Charles de Lint
Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.… — Susan Cain
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have… — Tim Minchin
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made… — Neil Gaiman
You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like… — Rainbow Rowell
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live… — Ricky Gervais
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — Henry Miller
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep… — John Mason Brown
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the… — Oprah Winfrey
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that… — Christopher Alexander
History is a myth that men agree to believe. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine… — Andrea Dworkin

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