Forgetting Quote by Nancy Isenberg

“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

“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

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

— Ernst Jünger

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going.…

— Tom Harpur

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

“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

“a tale of myth mystery, and a past long forgotten.”

— Lisa M. Green