Quote by Phil Cousineau

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

— Alan Watts

Myth is the nothing that is all.

— Fernando Pessoa

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

— Panos Cosmatos

“Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Myth is someone else's religion.

— Caroline Llewellyn

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

— Karen Armstrong

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

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

— Rollo May

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

— Michael Tsarion