The Penultimate Truth Quotes

#1. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth - penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images,

Joseph Campbell

#2. If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.

Joseph Campbell

#3. Every tounge bit had another word to say.

Ned Vizzini

#4. Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet.

Jojo Moyes

#6. In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. I knew I could never clean away this memory. We were stained and spoiled forever.

Keren David

#8. The animals' neural pathways have woven themselves into a new map that corresponds to the new arrangement of nerves in their hands. At first, he can't believe what he's seen. Like every other neuroscientist, he's been taught that the structure of the adult brain is fixed.

Nicholas Carr

#9. It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

S.M. Stirling

#11. You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

Joe Mantegna

#12. I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

Margaret Cho

#13. Openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to.

Veronica Roth

#14. If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

Dave Eggers