Quotes About Mythology

Only by killing the First Parents can a way be found out of the conflict into personal life.

most sailors still held the belief that there was no point in knowing how to swim, since it would only prolong your suffering. Turner

If we don't have the omnipotence of gods, we at least can destroy like the gods.

If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.

Tõesti, kuidas see niimoodi olla saab, et inimesed pole siiamaani võinud uudistada mõnda Kalevipoja pilti, nii et nad peavad muuseumis vahtima kes teab mis kükloope ja kentaure ja Ristija Johannese maharaiutud pead! Siis pole ime, et me räägime omavahel saksa keeles. Mis rahvas me selline oleme, kui omaenese jumalad ja vägimehed ära unustame ning peame lohutust otsima portselanist hiirtest ja kilpkonnadest!

But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.

What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.

The horn of Hemdall sounds as he stands facing his enemies on the rainbow-coloured arch of Bifrost.

basilisks, who enjoyed a ferocious reputation for it.

Fairies] had their origin when the rebellious angel Lucifer and his followers were expelled from Heaven, and God the Son warned God the Father that Heaven would soon be empty. Like figures in a film that is suddenly stopped, the expelled angels falling toward Hell halted where they were: some mid-air, others in the earth, and some in the ocean, and that is where they remain.

Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women.

She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched 'Merlin' has probably concluded that it's not accurate whatsoever - but, it's not meant to be. It's not meant to be a true telling. It's in a fantasy setting, it's really concentrating on the fantasy element.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.

As we were developing 'Umbral', and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. 'Wasteland' is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas 'Umbral' is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.