Mythological Hero Quotes

#1. The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward
into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

#3. If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

Kathy Lette

#4. It's only in books that you can change your life. Wipe out everything in a stroke. Do away with the weight of things. Delete the nasty parts, and then at the end of a sentence suddenly find yourself on the far side of the world.

Gregoire Delacourt

#5. Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Elaine Sciolino

#6. At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#7. Niki Behrikis Shanahan

Niki Behrikis Shanahan

#8. Course and headed south. They barely stopped until they reached Hawaii. They ought

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

#10. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison

#11. You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa ... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

Howard Graham Buffett

#12. The Cyclopes growled, I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're ... NO ... LADY ... CYCLOPES!

Rick Riordan

#13. I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

James Zogby

#15. Define your destiny and drive with abandon!

Gary Westfal

#16. None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Theodor Adorno

#17. A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary
a temple.

B. H. Roberts

#18. The demon woman is a mythological type, and appears either as the companion of the enemy, or as the seductress of the hero; she sleeps with him-or at least promises to-and kills him.

Wolfgang Lederer

#19. My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.

Matt Passmore