Birth Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

— Kenzaburo Oe

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Rollo May

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

“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

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur

“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as it goes…

— Helen Morales

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

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

— Eric Kripke

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

— Alan Watts

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports…

— Edward de Bono