Quotes About Mythology

Sometimes the snake's-hands in a story are the best part, if the story is a long one.

En ciel un dieu, en terre une déesse

Teach me to hear mermaids singing

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

Theirs was the giant race, before the flood.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favorite gods.

Be aware; The woman still holds the apple spirit, to bring the man, to the heaven, and as well as causes to expel him from there.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

E infine si mise a ridere e proclamò con una certa solennità: "Io non mi innamorerò mai di nessuno e non scriverò mai mai mai una poesia". "Non ci credo". "E' così". "Ma gli altri si innamoreranno di te". "Peggio per loro". "Soffriranno come questa Didone". "No, si andranno a fidanzare con un'altra, proprio come ha fatto Enea, che alla fine si è messo con la figlia di un re".

Bons ou maus, os homens acham todos que por qualquer façanha deles tens de lhes erguer um altar, como o São Jorge a matar o dragão.

Broke the tassels from the birch-trees, Steeped the foliage in honey, Made a lye from milk and ashes, Made of these a strong decoction, Mixed it with the fat and marrow Of the reindeer of the mountains, Made a soap of magic virtue,

Pluto (the Greek god Hades) is associated with divination because it symbolizes the revelation of secret or occult knowledge.

A person who actually believes in KARMA does neither take the examples of mythological stories to talk about it to the people nor is seen doing regularly the rituals of religion called DHARMA.

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Aphrodite embodies sexuality free of ambivalence, anxieties and self-consciousness, a sexuality so natural and quintessential to her that no myth deals with her virginity or its loss.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?