Mythic Quotes

63 Mythic quotes by 56 unique authors

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a… — Paul Elie
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that… — Joseph Campbell
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps… — Ken Wilber
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one… — Charles de Lint
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it… — Michael Moorcock
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads… — Rene Daumal
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and… — Terrance Hayes
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes… — Roland Barthes
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays… — William Irwin Thompson
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday… — Michael Crichton
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays… — Tom Perrotta
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become… — Carol Leifer
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies… — Rian Johnson
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's… — Neil Gaiman
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white… — Tom Hanks
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails… — John C. Reilly
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality.… — Steve Sabol
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order… — Pete Townshend
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… — Roland Barthes

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