The Myths Quotes

The Myths Quote of the day

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

Gracious is the giver who can host and also be a stranger at the door.

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

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.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.

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

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

Perfection's a myth, the latter was only meant to define it.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.

Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.

Passion is a rare flower that grows on the precipice of death. A few snatch it, and the rest are like an ox chewing its cud in a field.

I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

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

Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".

God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.

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

Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.

Hero, ” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.

It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.

Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

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

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.

Hero, ” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.

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

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.