Myth Quotes
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Myth Quotes & Sayings
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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
— Ross Macdonald
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.
— Robert D. McFadden
There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.
— Allan Wesler
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
— Johnnetta B. Cole
Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? — Kimberly Pauley
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
— William S. Burroughs
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
— Ivan Illich
Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?
— Jeff Brown
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
— Al Goldstein
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
— John Powell
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.
— Katie Cotugno
The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.
— Jessica Fortunato
In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.
— Paul Watzlawick
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
— Marcus Aurelius
A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.
— Robert Bringhurst
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
— Joseph Campbell
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
— James Hillman
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
— Karen Russell
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
— Jeff Bridges
Not all villains are bad, some are just hurt
— R.L. Weeks
There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.
— Michael Meade
The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction.
— Arthur Koestler
In the beginning was the myth.
— Hermann Hesse
There has never been nationhood without falsehood.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
You know what, evolution is a myth ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
— Christine O'Donnell
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
— Aristotle.
We live in our myths, we only endure reality.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
— Albert Camus
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
— Samuel R. Delany
Why are we so eager to turn a beautiful myth into reality? I
— Anne Fortier
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
— Alan Watts
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
— David Christian
The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.
— T. Geronimo Johnson
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
— Alfred Rosenberg
For TrishaThe truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
— Marilyn Quayle
You say we worship the sun; so do you.
— Tertullian
I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.
— Larry McMurtry
Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.
— William H Gass
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
— Martin Shaw
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
— Zephyr Teachout
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
— Peter Wilson
Sustainable success can only happen on purpose
— Seth Czerepak
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
— Ambrose Bierce
Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.
— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
— Diane Keaton
Writer's block? A myth. It's your job, show up and do your job.
— Caroline James
Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
— Pearl Zhu
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
— Alison Goldfrapp
The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.
— Lara Biyuts
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
— V.S. Pritchett
That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.
— David Mitchell
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.
— Kaitlin Bevis
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
The myth is strong, because the need is strong.
— Jerry B. Brown
Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth.
— Eve Tushnet
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.
— Pankaj Mishra
It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.
— Joseph B.H. McMillan
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
— Paul Gauguin
A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.No way to spread the seeds. — V.E Schwab
I think a myth is created from truth.
— Mark Lanegan
The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. - ARISTOTLE
— Christopher McDougall
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
— Jacques Ellul
To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.
— Alberto Villoldo
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.
— Frank Delaney
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
— Jean Danielou
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
