Ancient Quote by Jack Zipes

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the…

— Julie Taymor

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

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

“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and…

— Jack Zipes

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to…

— Joseph Campbell

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the…

— Anonymous

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

— Albert Camus

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes…

— Sam Keen