Asks Quote by Richard Holloway

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

— Carl Jung

I think a myth is created from truth.

— Mark Lanegan

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth…

— Isaac Asimov

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Jean Houston

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

“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 does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

— Rudolf Bultmann

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no…

— C. G. Jung

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

— Gloria Naylor