Mythology Quotes

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a myt...

There is a small wooden viewing tower, and pamphlets from the State of Ohio, but they focus on facts...

Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty....

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my...

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who ...

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all ex...

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,An...

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they susp...

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through...

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in t...

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented ...

in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequentl...

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it ge...

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears...

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're get...

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...

Awe is what moves us forward.

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

But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comp...

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primit...

The child's world is alert and alive, governed by rules of response and command, not by physical law...

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the hum...

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

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

The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another...

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

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mytholog...

When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’r...

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense,...

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a c...

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional appreh...

If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative ...

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition...

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It w...

I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn. "Is it alive?""It can talk," said H...

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could n...

So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we wou...

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and pr...

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or...

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...

He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get...

In Muspell, at the edge of the flame, where the mist burns into light, where the land ends, stood Su...

I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end o...

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy sh...

If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they wer...

I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it reg...

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do somethi...

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. ...

And when suddenlythe god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,uttered the words: ‘He has turned ...

THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayersstopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to ...

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle ...

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care...

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,seizes me.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believe...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of ...

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...

He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that ...

It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...

The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, ...

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and n...

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...

As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the...

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine ...

Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in s...

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w...

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downo...

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

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a ...

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd tak...

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan...

unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with eac...

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same l...

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining o...

The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge...

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he...

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in...