Quotes On Cultural Myths

#1. I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

Sam Keen

#2. Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Diane Wakoski

#3. We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.

Bryant McGill

#4. I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Robert Jordan

#5. How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

Ray Bradbury

#6. ...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever.
The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.

Don DeLillo

#7. That's me, I'm emotional.

David Wells

#8. Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

Brenda Laurel

#9. I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol

#10. Maybe 'coincidence' is another word for fate.

Amy Tintera

#11. You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Michael Sheen

#13. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Rose Of Lima

#14. Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time.

Jonathan Crary

#16. You will never be able to live a victorious Christian life, unless you learn during your times of praying in tongues to understand the depths of what God's Spirit is revealing to your mind.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

William Irwin Thompson

#18. These descendants divined myths in what was really history, for true memories were forgotten in chaos as vast arrays of daivi astras used in the Great War ravaged the land. That war destroyed almost everything. It took centuries for India to regain its old cultural vigour and intellectual depth.

Amish Tripathi