Death Quote by Joseph Campbell

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

We always go back to that base, and that base is so important. It's like an energetic womb where you can begin. Energy is…

— Christine McCormick Day

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one…

— Joseph Campbell

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

— Joseph Campbell

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what…

— Joseph Campbell

There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to…

— Joseph Campbell

“Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come”

— Joseph Campbell

“I remember reading about these primitive initiation rituals in school. They had one where they take the kid way out into the wilderness and…

— Tim Tharp

“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration…

— Éliphas Lévi

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks…

— Charles Dickens

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand