Change Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

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

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you…

— Karen Armstrong

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

— Barbra Streisand

Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for…

— Sam Keen

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be…

— Robert Graves

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst

“Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of…

— Michael Meade

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to…

— Joseph Campbell

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May