Quotes About Mythology

Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they've never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology. Well then, I guess I'm the first!

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

It was from Dionysus, the wine god, that the theater came.

Apparently each century yields a new kind of vampire, or let us say that our course of growth was not set in the beginning any more than the course of human beings.

Can't always be the living legend."-Louis

And not having had any true gods of my own, I speak of all gods as if they were poetry.

Civilizations rise and fall, my friend,' I said. Old gods give way to new ones.

I have named them the hounds of Sisyphus.

And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom and their wealth. The Christian god was as dead as he had been in the 1700s. And no new mythological religion had arisen to take the place of the old .

It seems that there are minds who would weave it all together, every myth, or its essence, to make a glorious tapestry.

These creatures had no names for me. They might have come from any verse in Ovid, or from the writing of Lucretius, or indeed from the blind poet, Homer. It was no matter to me. I lost myself in depicting uplifted arms and graceful throats, in painting oval faces and garments blowing gently in the breeze.

It was an old tale. It was too old.

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

Gods are so last year," Hiro said, and Aya smiled.

But I do not think dragons drained such sad blood.

she was born from the foam that arose when Ouranous's genitals landed in the sea—

she and Wotan are also both sister and brother, and wife and husband.

she is said to have possessed golden sandals that carried her over water and land

At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say good night to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she didn't know her father better, she would have though he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said.

At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say goodnight to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she did not know her father any better, she would have thought he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said. But my father never cries.

It really made me wish I was Roman or Greek, you know? A classical Greek god would have killed his lying, cheating father and then given him forgiveness. And a classical Greek god would have better abs, too. That's what Greek gods are all about, you know? Patricide and low body fat.

Let me BBQ the red headed bitch goddess - Simi

Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form! (Julian) Gee, I can't imagine why he wouldn't respond to that. (Grace)

I'll take him outside and beat him for making my girl cry. (Acheron) Really? (Kat) Absolutely. Forget medieval, I'll break Atlantean on his ass, and you've seen what a ticked-off Atlantean god can do. Makes Hannibal Lecter look like a crybaby. (Acheron)