Myth Quotes

Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

It’s a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.

There is at least one truth in every myth.

Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles

Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles

Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

We are all beautiful creation of God.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times

I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

But are they heroes or mere dreamers?

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

There are brains so smart in finance and unconsciously reject wealth.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

The myth is strong, because the need is strong.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Dear Time, You're so beautiful when You stand still.

As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.