Larger than life Quote by Helen Morales

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

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

— John Boorman

“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

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has…

— Paul Ricoeur

“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

Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to…

— Dorothy Norman

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

“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

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

— Rollo May

“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

“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