Storytelling Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,…

— Karen Armstrong

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“a tale of myth mystery, and a past long forgotten.”

— Lisa M. Green

“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a nation, a…

— Alfred Rosenberg

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…

— Anonymous

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a…

— Michael Meade