Top 50 E Myth Quotes

#1. What was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.

C.S. Lewis

E Myth Quotes #781
#2. Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?

Maverick Myth Novel

E Myth Quotes #2613
#3. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Robert Jordan

E Myth Quotes #7795
#4. It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

Kenzaburo Oe

E Myth Quotes #9543
#5. Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children.
There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

E Myth Quotes #9787
#6. A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories ... the girl-group is a gigantic narrative full of morality tales locked up like charms in a crystallized sound.

Lucy O'Brien

E Myth Quotes #12927
#7. 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

E Myth Quotes #13007
#8. The truth of a myth ... is not in its words but its patterns.

David Mitchell

E Myth Quotes #14136
#9. I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment.

Terry Eagleton

E Myth Quotes #14481
#10. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Marilynne Robinson

E Myth Quotes #14842
#11. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Camille Paglia

E Myth Quotes #20005
#12. If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Adelle Davis

E Myth Quotes #21313
#13. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.

Jennifer Worth

E Myth Quotes #25432
#14. If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy.

Albert Camus

E Myth Quotes #25491
#15. It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul Louis Couchoud

E Myth Quotes #27695
#16. The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

Jill Scott

E Myth Quotes #28023
#17. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.

Abhijit Naskar

E Myth Quotes #28276
#18. We are what we myth.

William G. Doty

E Myth Quotes #30040
#19. Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.

Sapan Saxena

E Myth Quotes #30653
#20. History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

E Myth Quotes #33946
#21. Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

E Myth Quotes #34470
#22. When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

Gerald W. Haslam

E Myth Quotes #34962
#23. I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources

Christopher Nolan

E Myth Quotes #36709
#24. Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

Nina Berberova

E Myth Quotes #36760
#25. Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Joan D. Vinge

E Myth Quotes #36827
#26. The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Libby Larsen

E Myth Quotes #37239
#27. Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.

Martin Edwards

E Myth Quotes #38033
#28. It has been forever that people aspire towards liberty and rejoiced averytime they lost it. The mortals never loved with passion except those who handcuffed them . And whom they turn into myth? The executioners of their freedom

Cioran

E Myth Quotes #38416
#29. She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all.

Nelson Mandela

E Myth Quotes #42361
#30. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire

E Myth Quotes #42953
#31. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Henry Louis Gates

E Myth Quotes #44987
#32. 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

E Myth Quotes #45622
#33. That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.

David Mitchell

E Myth Quotes #45992
#34. If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Russell M. Nelson

E Myth Quotes #46187
#35. Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

Steven T. Katz

E Myth Quotes #47037
#36. The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

E. O. Wilson

E Myth Quotes #47092
#37. ... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.

Nicholas Gane

E Myth Quotes #47424
#38. Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Ziad K. Abdelnour

E Myth Quotes #47481
#39. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.

Timothy Keller

E Myth Quotes #47584
#40. There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

Therese Rein

E Myth Quotes #51845
#41. The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality ... was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil ... This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands ...

Joseph Campbell

E Myth Quotes #52318
#42. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

Jessica Valenti

E Myth Quotes #552555
#43. For Tolkien, a myth is a story that conveys "fundamental things" - in other words, that tries to tell us about the deeper structure of things. The best myths, he argues, are not deliberately constructed falsehoods, but are rather tales woven by people to capture the echoes of deeper truths. Myths

Alister E. McGrath

E Myth Quotes #984508
#44. For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths

Alister E. McGrath

E Myth Quotes #1223494
#45. In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

Phillip E. Johnson

E Myth Quotes #1280949
#46. Christianity, rather than being one myth alongside many others, is thus the fulfilment of all previous mythological religions. Christianity tells a true story about humanity, which makes sense of all the stories that humanity tells about itself.

Alister E. McGrath

E Myth Quotes #1288691
#47. History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E.L. Doctorow

E Myth Quotes #1324372
#48. Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

Phillip E. Johnson

E Myth Quotes #1518556
#49. A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds.

V.E Schwab

E Myth Quotes #1524246
#50. Some people say that true love is a myth, that soulmates don't exist. I feel sadness for those cynical souls. They'll never know the high that comes from being with the one you're meant to be with. They'll never experience the absolute rightness of finding their true mate.

E.K. Blair

E Myth Quotes #1667901

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