The Myths Quotes

#1. They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages.

Melissa McPhail

#3. Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

Rollo May

#4. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

#5. If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#6. As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Nathan Parsons

#7. I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

Jandy Nelson

#8. Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

#10. All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

Louis Leterrier

#11. In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.

Jacqueline Winspear

#12. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Carl Jung

#13. I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Deborah Bull

#14. Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.

Maili Wong

#15. Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alex Ferguson

#16. They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

Emperor Hirohito

#17. Would the Gardners and the workers at the Yerkes Primate Center be remembered dimly as legendary folk heroes or gods of another species? Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes?

Carl Sagan

#18. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

Joseph Campbell

#19. Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama.

Michael Meade

#20. True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our advantage, when we learn to deconstruct all the myths that propagate fat-hate.

Nomy Lamm

#21. The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

Northrop Frye

#22. You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.

Nadeem Aslam

#23. The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Stephen King

#24. Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

Ennio Flaiano

#25. I have the deepest respect even for Pagan myths, still more for the myths in Holy Scripture.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.

S. Caroline Taylor

#27. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.

Ken Liu

#28. Women are no more important than any other potential victims, but we are the primary targets of the messages and myths that sustain rape culture. We're the ones asked to change our behavior, limit our movements, and take full responsibility for the prevention of sexual violence in society.

Kate Harding

#29. 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

#30. Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.

Stephen Covey

#31. We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

Rigoberta Menchu

#32. Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Henry Jenkins

#33. Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

F. Sionil Jose

#34. It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

Asger Jorn

#35. I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Neil Gaiman

#36. Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Joseph Campbell

#37. For, as the myths tell us, it is by defying the gods that human beings have best expressed their humanity.

Salman Rushdie

#38. What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

Jeanette Winterson

#39. The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.

Brunonia Barry

#40. Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

A. N. Wilson

#41. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek

#42. Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.

M.F. Moonzajer

#43. If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#44. He was, after all, the ultimate rebel
it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Jasper Fforde

#45. For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Ann Druyan

#46. If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

David Christian

#47. I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

Rumi

#48. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

Moby

#49. By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars.

Errol Coder

#50. The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.

Lara Biyuts

#51. Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood

#52. What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

William Irwin Thompson

#54. Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Jean O'Leary

#55. It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.
I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Bono

#56. The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#57. I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Tom Wolfe

#58. Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Timothy Garton Ash

#59. Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

Beto O'Rourke

#60. Did I read the myths of the Greeks? Of strong men gaining glory for their own heads? No. I told them tales of Arthur, of the Nazarene, of Vishnu. Strong heroes who wished only to protect the weak.

Pierce Brown

#61. Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.

Wally Lamb

#62. The two biggest myths about me are that I'm an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I'm an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.

Woody Allen

#63. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Jan Karon

#64. Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

Octavio Paz

#65. It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

Ann Wroe

#66. She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones.

Dasa Drndic

#67. Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom.

Stephenie Meyer

#68. We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.

Cameron Conaway

#69. Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

Jane Caputi

#70. And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#71. The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Wesley Morris

#72. Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Tim Minchin

#73. There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

John Major

#74. The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.

Marcus Aurelius

#75. It's kind of strange ... All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real.

Maurissa Guibord

#76. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

Megan Fox

#77. So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Aristotle.

#78. Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle, slightly different from one another but always built with the same pieces, though not in the same order.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#79. The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Martin Shaw

#80. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

#81. It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.

James D. Watson

#82. Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh?

Arkady Strugatsky

#83. Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

Fred Van Lente

#84. The typical conservative Roman was far too practical for that. If you didn't know by age five that the gods were made-up creatures and the myths invented stories, then you were a fool.

Anne Rice

#85. THE AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEEN HEIR TO THE MYTHS THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE POOR THAN RICH, LOWER-CLASS RATHER THAN MIDDLE OR UPPER, EASYGOING RATHER THAN INDUSTRIOUS, EXTRAVAGANT RATHER THAN THRIFTY AND ATHLETIC RATHER THAN ACADEMIC.

John Connolly

#86. Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

Arjuna Ardagh

#87. I am the dreamer and not the dream, from "Kenilworth

J.S. Watts

#88. My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Dave Morris

#89. The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

Annie Jacobsen

#90. Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed,
is that myths are just myths.

Michael Tsarion

#91. Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ - the modern equivalent of which is Superman!

Eli Of Kittim

#92. People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

Helen Fisher

#93. Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

Haruki Murakami

#94. Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Jeff Bridges

#95. The first step toward enhancing performance in an organization is realizing that improvement is possible only if participants abandon business-as-usual practices. Doing so requires recognizing and rejecting three prevailing myths.

Anders Ericsson

#96. The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Dag Hammarskjold

#97. The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

Herbert Schiller

#98. It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are ...

Edith Hamilton

#99. Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

Anne Rice

#100. One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning that they can see shades of yellow and blue.

Victoria Stilwell