Hero With A 1000 Faces Quotes

#1. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#2. It is the stress that holds the structure up.

P.K. Page

#3. Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Anthony Kiedis

#4. Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Joseph Campbell

#5. One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Tina Brown

#8. The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Joseph Campbell

#9. Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream.

Joseph Campbell

#10. A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Helen Rowland