Mythic Quotes
63 quotes by 56 authors
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get…
— Alan Ball
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
— Orlando Bloom
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I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment…
— Judy Chicago
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people…
— Judy Chicago
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We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for…
— Danny Glover
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
— Angela Carter
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Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of…
— Carl Jung
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If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once…
— Walter Benjamin
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already…
— Walt Whitman
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Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space.…
— Jon Krakauer
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society…
— Mircea Eliade
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I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
— Peter Benchley
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Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
— Terri Windling
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for…
— Margaret Visser
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the…
— Michael Meade
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The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the natural…
— Alan Lee
Who Wrote These Mythic Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 63 Mythic Quotes, led by these top contributors: