Myth Quotes

#1. But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

Karl Rove

#2. In the beginning was the myth.

Hermann Hesse

#3. There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Michael Meade

#4. Your endurance is strongly influenced by
your fundamental myth about the fighting.

Toba Beta

#5. I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

Rick Riordan

#6. There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy ... Well that's a myth.

Pauline Marois

#7. Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Craig Shirley

#9. Lucius needs you. He mourns you. He loves you. It's very unusual for a vampire to truly love. Some hold that real love between vampires is a myth. That we are too vicious by nature.But Lucius does. He loves you
as you love him.

Beth Fantaskey

#10. The Blood Decanter is really a myth. It's a metaphor that we all watch, we all stand before it, awed and reverent; but in actuality, it's a demon that steals your soul.

A.L. Mengel

#11. The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

#12. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

Lee Gutkind

#14. Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

Alfred Rosenberg

#15. Huh ... guess they didn't want a cracker after all. Another myth BUSTED

Kevin Hearne

#16. It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones.

Colum McCann

#17. A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.

Emma Goldman

#20. You know what, evolution is a myth ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

Christine O'Donnell

#21. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

#22. No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Naomi Wolf

#23. The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.

Linda Mason Hunter

#24. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

Tim O'Shea

#25. The thing I came for:
[ ... ]
the thing itself and not the myth

Adrienne Rich

#26. I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

#27. The alternative to the myth of pure evil is that most of the harm that people visit on one another comes from motives that are found in every normal person.

Steven Pinker

#28. No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Alistair Cooke

#29. Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

Joseph Campbell

#30. A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

Tom Harpur

#31. Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#32. Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Mark Ruffalo

#33. But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

#34. The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Gina Greenlee

#35. For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

UNESCO

#36. A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

Salman Rushdie

#37. Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

Sam Keen

#38. The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Hofstadter

#39. It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.

Katie Cotugno

#40. The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

Jessica Fortunato

#41. A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

Paulo Freire

#42. Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

John Fowles

#43. When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

Epicurus

#44. It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Ricky Gervais

#45. One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

Kathryn Harrison

#46. The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Barbara Tuchman

#47. It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

Gavid Hood

#48. The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

Robert Anton Wilson

#49. There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today's power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

Naomi Wolf

#50. Dance is an image. As painting is a song. Simulacra simulate. A rite repeats a metaphora (a voyage). Moving trucks in modern-day Greece still have the word METAPHORA on their sides. A myth is the danced image of the rite itself, which is expected to attract the world.

Pascal Quignard

#51. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Gerry Spence

#52. Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Honore De Balzac

#53. With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

William Matthews

#54. Here's the reality: Your personal life is a myth. There is no such thing as a compartmentalized life. Every area, space, category, and set of relationships is interrelated. You are a seamless whole. When

Michael Hyatt

#55. Moreover, the subjective interpretation which sees the myth as a transpersonal psychic event is, in view of the myth's origins in the collective unconscious, much fairer than an attempt to interpret it objectively,

Erich Neumann

#56. The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Erica Jong

#57. We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#58. (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

Jacques Ellul

#59. It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

Meg Cabot

#60. The spirit of the Internet. This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it, the better.

Evgeny Morozov

#61. Myth: Vampires have the power to charm people.
Truth: Kinda depends on the vampire if you ask me.

Kimberly Pauley

#62. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Jerry Garcia

#63. I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Richard Condon

#64. 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

#65. One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Jeff Goodell

#66. Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

#67. This ( ... ) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

#68. Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

John Mason Brown

#69. We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

George Weinberg

#70. The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Robert Trout

#71. Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan D. Vinge

#72. Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

Mary Midgley

#73. Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation ...

Joseph Campbell

#74. I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

Ben Mendelsohn

#75. Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Paul McCartney

#76. The myth of their total responsibility arose during postwar trials in the Federal Republic of Germany as a way to protect the majority of German killers and isolate the killing from German society as such.

Timothy Snyder

#77. The idea that IT professionals don't need business acumen is a destructive myth.

Al Kuebler

#78. I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.

Ilhan Berk

#79. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Thomas Perez

#80. Happiness is a myth,' Karla snapped back angrily. 'It was invented to make us buy things.

Gregory David Roberts

#81. The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge
what does all this point to, if not to the loss of myth, the loss of the mythical home, the mythical maternal womb?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#82. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Peter Kreeft

#83. A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Gilbert Ryle

#84. I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

David Levithan

#85. Perfection's a myth, the latter was only meant to define it.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#86. Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

Karen Russell

#87. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

#88. Bad sex is a fuckin' myth, like a goddamned legendary creature in some fuckin' sappy fairytale.

Jenn Cooksey

#89. The reader will have noticed that one no longer treats the siege of Troy as a myth. To do so would be to exhibit a most uncritical mind; even the legends of King Arthur have a historic foundation, and those of the Nibelungen are still more probable.

Leonard W. King

#90. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Oprah Winfrey

#91. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.

Michael Connelly

#92. 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

#93. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

David W. Orr

#94. Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth.

Marty Rubin

#95. But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Stanley Crouch

#96. Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

Starhawk

#97. Getting over things is a myth. Time buries things, it doesn't erase them. They can always be dug up later.

Sean Develin

#98. We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people
especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Alice Walker

#99. To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

Robert Heilbroner

#100. Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

Ted Malloch