Quotes About Mythology

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?

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

I'm not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods' asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, " I said.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron

was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis . . . .

O z?a Persefono, Mog?a?e? tak wielu ?zam da? up?yna? p?ono?

O cattiva Proserpina, come puoi tollerare che invano sian versate tante lacrime amare?...

To take a single and salient instance, to study the folk-epos of Russia, alive in the mouths of the people up to and beyond the time of Peter the Great, is to look at Homer with new and wider opened eyes.