Quotes About Mythology

The summers have been shorter since the last dragon died, and the winters longer and crueler.

A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed.

You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us.

The gods have no mercy. That's why they're gods.

Like their dragons, the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men.

The gods are never that good.

A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

One day the singers will make all of us immortal.

Aren't you afraid? The gods might send you down to some terrible hell for all the evil you've done." "What evil?" He laughed. "What gods?

Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.

And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. "For dragons fly.

Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi,' the Lysene girl said. 'Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the older moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

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.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.