Storytelling Quote by René Girard

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths…

— Carolyn Baker

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied…

— Charles de Lint

“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a…

— Michael Meade

“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.”

— Mark O'Connell

“With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five hundred years ago (and for whatever reason), these sacrificial systems were threatened and the ones…

— Sandor Goodhart

“If we can practice opening to the crises in our personal lives as teaching moments, as evolutionary stepping stones, we will be far better…

— Carolyn Baker

“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are funerals. The…

— V.E. Schwab

“Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the stronger the story becomes, because we desperately want to give meaning to these…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

“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