Memory Quote by Julian Barnes

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,…

— Karen Armstrong

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a…

— Brian Godawa

“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about…

— Randy S. Woodley

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

— Joseph Campbell