Top 35 Best Greek Myth Quotes

#1. A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

Jules Cashford

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#2. I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

Anne Fortier

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#3. I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.

Homer

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#4. Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth.

Eve Tushnet

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#5. To survive is to win.

Zhang Yimou

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#6. I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Tom Wolfe

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#7. The dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Virgil

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#8. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

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#9. It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

Ann Wroe

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#10. There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

Eugene Kennedy

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#11. should be a class in college, Vibrators 101.

Lauren Calhoun

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#12. You make the rarest canvas, love

Madeline Miller

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#13. So, Azalee - " When he turned to her, she stared daggers back - almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do that? he wondered in a wild moment of panic.

"What?" bit Azalee when he didn't continue.

Mighty Zeus, could he go five minutes without offending a woman?

Deidre Huesmann

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#14. Simple Shepherd Mortuary

Philip K. Dick

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#15. You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.

Walter Rohrl

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#16. When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Bernardo

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#17. Nd why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl ...

Virgil

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#18. If sunshine took human form, like some Greek myth, she would be Presley Shaw.

Emma Chase

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#19. How old did they tell you I am?" she demanded, hurrying to match his pace.

Joel shook his head. "If my mother ever taught me anything, it was to never question a lady's age.

Deidre Huesmann

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#20. Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

Emma Thompson

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#21. A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

T. Colin Campbell

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#22. Evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

James Weldon Johnson

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#23. You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

Barry Long

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#24. I have a face for radio and a voice for writing.

Grant McLachlan

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#25. We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

Angela Merkel

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#26. Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

Neil MacGregor

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#27. It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

C. G. Jung

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#28. Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

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#29. Teracia was a tatted former client in her forties that had met the love of her life thanks to Gerri. She was Gerri's first attempt at matchmaking.

Milly Taiden

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#30. You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand.
She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're ... "
Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

Rainbow Rowell

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#31. I dislike the word mythology because of its secondary definition meaning "something untrue." Myth is a Greek word that simply means "story," and mythologies are collections of ancient stories explaining the order of the universe or a society's ideals and customs.

Alaric Albertsson

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#32. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Joseph Campbell

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#33. I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.

Haruki Murakami

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#34. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Virgil

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#35. I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

Brooke Elliott

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