Atlantis Quote by Joseph Campbell

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost,…

— Joseph Campbell

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people…

— Joseph Campbell

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive…

— Joseph Campbell

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent…

— Karen Armstrong

“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is…

— Irwin Edman

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action…

— Edward Abbey

“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

This lie of a life can as quickly as it came dissolve. We seek only reprieve and welcome the darkness. The myth of a…

— Lamb Of God

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a…

— John Edwards

O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

— Callimachus