Top 100 Quotes About Mythology
#1. No one that night turned
into literature, nothing that we did or didn't
entered the mythology of boys growing into men
or girls fighting to be people.
Philip Levine
#2. Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
Camille Paglia
#3. A romantic kiss is the perfect fusion of science and mythology--the scientific account of the biochemistry of saliva and the countless muscles and nerves involved on one side, and the mythic actual experience of the kiss on the other.
Vic Cavalli
#4. Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
Karen Armstrong
#5. One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology, in fact.
Bruce Timm
#6. I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.
Tyson Chandler
#7. Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
Amber Benson
#8. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.
Jessica Posner
#9. To be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
Susan Sontag
#10. When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.
Martin Scorsese
#11. What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.
Robert William Case
#12. In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices.
Luis E. Navia
#13. Religion and mythology, the only difference is a tally of conquests of one over the other...
Jason R Jones
#14. The idea of a "free market" separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They have had the most influence over it and would rather keep it that way. The mythology is useful precisely because it hides their power.
Robert B. Reich
#15. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.
Eula Biss
#16. It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold Von Ranke
#17. I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. ( ... )
Wendy Froud
#18. And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
Tobias Wolff
#20. In a word, mythology is a search; it is something that combines a recurrent desire with a recurrent doubt, mixing
G.K. Chesterton
#21. The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each other
Ian McEwan
#22. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
Carl Jung
#23. In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual. Philosophy
Swami Vivekananda
#24. I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.
Eric Nylund
#25. I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
Joseph Campbell
#26. I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
Nathan Parsons
#27. The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.
Rick Riordan
#28. Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.
W. H. Auden
#29. When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.
This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come.
That is the country that we are going to be celebrating.
And those are the people that we are one with.
Joseph Campbell
#30. Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley.
William Shakespeare
#31. The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
Alex Shoumatoff
#32. Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.
Thomm Quackenbush
#33. This is the frost coming out of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I
Henry David Thoreau
#34. Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.
Michio Kaku
#35. 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
Neil Gaiman
#36. Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.
Stanley Kunitz
#37. If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
Ray William Johnson
#38. Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
Evan Osnos
#39. It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.
William Webb
#40. I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
Rick Riordan
#41. Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
Rachel True
#42. Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
#43. In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#44. In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since we intend to do both.
Joelle Charbonneau
#45. I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
Isabel Lucas
#47. In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it's never examined or even noticed by anyone. It's like the sound of blood rushing through your veins - you hear it so constantly that you don't hear it at all.
Daniel Quinn
#48. Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.
Ashwin Sanghi
#49. I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#50. The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#52. Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
Joseph Campbell
#53. Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes
#54. This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#55. Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.
Ann Nocenti
#56. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.
Jorge Luis Borges
#57. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
#58. That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)
Laurie Halse Anderson
#59. Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.
Damon Lindelof
#60. Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
Andrew Lang
#61. I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
Billy Childish
#62. I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'
Isabelle Fuhrman
#63. The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
Martin Parr
#65. Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Joseph Campbell
#66. To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
Bruno Heller
#67. I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
Kara Walker
#68. The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.
Brenna Yovanoff
#69. The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
#70. It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.
Nicolas Cage
#71. She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.
Angela Carter
#72. I'll search in mythology and archeology
and in every -ology to my old name.
one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me,
then swear with a flash of lightning.
This is my orphan son
Mahmoud Darwish
#73. Fate. Sounds romantic."
"You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.
Tiffany Reisz
#74. The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.
Rudolf Bultmann
#75. The most revered presidents - Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, both Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Obama - have each advanced populist imperialism while gradually increasing inclusion of other groups beyond the core of descendants of old settlers into the ruling mythology.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#76. Ymir," Luisa said, pronouncing it as she'd heard Sean do: ee-meer. A word from Norse mythology referring to primordial ice giants. Sean's code name for a particular hunk of ice that his project had identified, and that he meant to bring back. "Yeah.
Neal Stephenson
#77. Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
Seth Godin
#78. Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Bob Beauprez
#79. Mythology works ... because Indians have been bred on myths.
Ashwin Sanghi
#80. It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.
Sasha Roiz
#81. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
Terry Gross
#82. If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology.
Joseph Campbell
#83. If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
Mike Mignola
#85. Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
Vince Lombardi
#86. Mythology, like water, has the unique ability to take the form of its container.
Utkarsh Patel
#87. Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.
Emily Browning
#88. When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was
gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
C.S. Lewis
#89. The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
Wynton Marsalis
#90. In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
Joseph Campbell
#91. When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.
Haruki Murakami
#92. There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#93. Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
J.G. Ballard
#94. I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
Wes Craven
#95. When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.
Glenn Quinn
#96. Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?
Joannah Miley
#97. Don't blame your mother, Tony. I was the one being promiscuous." Owen said. Evelyn nodded. "And you know how much I love Greek mythology, Son.
Delora Dennis
#98. The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
Molly Ivins
#99. Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
Elizabeth Janeway
#100. Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
Richard Whately
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