Mythology Quotes

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

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.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

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.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

Fight for faith, and hope will be born.

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

I love you more than too much.

Love her enough to let her live.

It was hope that brought me love.

But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.

No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.

When you're meant to do something, life will have a way of giving you no option but follow the road you're meant to walk.

There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"..."Sadie, " My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.

Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn

What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

Secrets are dark things. They don’t exist in the light. Theyglow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks, in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Oh, one more thing, ' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a boat!

the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.