Quotes About Mythology

Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.

It is true that the gods are dead, because of course we killed them. But their ghosts are still with us, and the anger of those ghosts is righteous and palpable and poetic.

In passato l'apocalisse, dal punto di vista religioso ma anche secolare, è sempre stata considerata un evento singolo improvviso, un flash accecante dal cielo, una bomba nucleare. Oggi, pensiamo al cambiamento climatico, la fine dei tempi appare più come una lenta dissoluzione. E questo fa sì che non abbiamo il paradigma mitologico per darle un senso, non sappiamo come pensarla, come darle una forma.

Even the gods love jokes. —Plato

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

What's the matter, fairy boy? Pissed because Chrys rather kiss me?" - Essence (Nymphs of Macedonia Trilogy #1)

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like gargoyles.

People don't just appear on the beach unless they're demigods or gods or really, really lost pizza delivery guys. (It's happened—but that's another story.)

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

Atlantis will rise again.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I know why Superman left Krypton. Earth was the only place he could get steroids!

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.

There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.

A young man named for a god of fucking rode his palomino next to my dun.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once.

Lilith. Named you meself. Did you know Adam had a first wife before Eve? Called her Lilith, but the bitch was too headstrong so got rid of her, he did. Headstrong, another word for uppity.

When I finally die, at the hand of the Duolingon, how many runes will you have to write each night to stop me from coming for you?

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.