Dark ages Quote by Ehsan Masood

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

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

— Ernst Jünger

“We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilization and he will remain there…

— Michael Talbot

“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

“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has a history,…

— Helen Morales

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“It is perilous to live past the end of your myth”

— Ann Carson

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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