Quotes About Myth

Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

There he lost his love and half his crew, if the tales be true…

Dragons die." She stood on her toes to kiss him lightly on an unshaven cheek. "But so do dragonslayers.

Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.

He has a song," the man replied. "He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name.

They are boys drunk on song and story, and like all boys, they think themselves immortal.

That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.

What is the song of ice and fire?" "It's no song I've ever heard.

Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.

The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives. And myth is meaning divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

You can't all be the greatest knight in England." "Why not?" Gawain smiled suddenly. "It makes for better stories that way.

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.