Quotes About Lore

Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Perhaps magic was once a mighty force in the world, but no longer. What little remains is no more than the wisp of smoke that lingers in the air after a great fire has burned out, and even that is fading. Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.

The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.

A man-made satellite slowly pencils a line through one long passage in the lore of stars, but for those who know the constellation's stories, nothing can alter them.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Enoch what's-his-name

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

I do love mythology.

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

I like mythology - anything historical.

Az Sweldn rak Anhûin

Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite, The good Válmíki

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.