Enabling Quote by Joseph Campbell

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there…

— Lewis Hyde

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

— Rollo May

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

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

— Rollo May

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

It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on…

— Rudolf Bultmann

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

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

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

— Alan Watts

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable,…

— Sallust

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods.…

— Anne Carson