Quotes About Myth

I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I

It has been said that in ancient times there was only one gender; in that blissful state, humankind existed until, as punishment, the gods divided each of us in two, a cruel mitosis that sent each half forever spinning across the earth in search of its mate, so that it could be whole again.

It's a bizarre but widespread myth that only heroes have good qualities, and the only qualities heroes have are good; villains are, by definition, all bad. Bullshit.

He had proved beyond any reasonable doubt that gods and devils were simply myth and superstition, but deep in his unruly peasant heart ("My father was a village apothecary and my mother was a goatherd's daughter. Can you imagine?") he believed...And belief, like love and sleep, is something you can't do anything about. You can't make it come if you want it, and you can't make it go if you don't.

Did you ever hear of a place called Sphoe?

Los persas no necesitan haber vivido el amor en sus propias carnes. En sus cuentos y mitos, incluso en el libro sagrado, el amor está por todas partes.

I write about fairies in fantasy and folklore because who wouldn't want to believe in magic and fairy tales.

In almost all human history, figures descending from the sky would have been angels or gods or demons -- or Icarus hurtling down, his father, Daedalus, following too slowly to catch the vainglorious boy. What must it have felt like to inhabit a commonality of human experience -- all eyes to the sky, watching for some mythic to land?

Genius has to work hard too. Our conception of the privileges of genius is a false one.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything....

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

History is fables agreed upon.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.

There's a legend...that says all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord. The matchmaking gods tie that cord around their ankles at birth, and in time the gods pull those cords tighter and tighter. Slowly, slowly, over the next twenty or thirty or forty years, they draw the couple toward each other until they meet.

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.