Best Mythology Qoutes
290 Mythology quotes by 211 unique authors
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I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the…
— Rick Riordan
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Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
— Carl Jung
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
— Aeschylus
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Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate…
— Joseph Campbell
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At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just…
— Alison Bechdel
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They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
— Rick Riordan
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Love cannot live where there is no trust.
— Edith Hamilton
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He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.
— Rick Riordan
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You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as…
— John Logan
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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
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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in…
— Madeline Miller
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You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something…
— Ilona Andrews
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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are…
— Susan Sontag
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The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
— Rick Riordan
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It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate…
— Bono
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
— Hermann Hesse
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Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
— Andrea Dworkin
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
— Bernard Malamud
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
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Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it…
— Devdutt Pattanaik
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