Myth Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image “The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myth Patterns Storytelling Truth
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.” — John Pirillo Copy Share Image
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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