Quotes About Myth

It's a myth that all Scandinavians are happy, healthy, outdoors people. It's often more a matter of class whether you can afford to take time to take care of yourself.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

Longer metaphors, in the form of stories, allow more sophisticated relationships: […] In planning, the boundaries between myth, history and fiction are not so consequential as one might think.

FYI: There's no such place as Carmen, San Diego.

Whatever Americans fondly believe, their government has always had its fingers in the economic pie. What distinguishes the USA from every other developed country has been the widespread belief to the contrary.

There are no angels in America.

You do not live in America. No such place exists.

The Sídh's historical myth is the source of the bastardized concept of a fairy—as if anyone gives a rat's ass.

If you miss your baby's sleep window, or try to extend his awake time in the name of getting him to sleep longer (another myth), it's going to be a lot harder to teach him the skills of settling down.

that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it "shatters the myth that our own righteousness can protect us from unjust suffering."[109] In other words, we cannot control the situations that might lead to our pain. Second, we cannot judge others based on the fact that they are suffering.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

This is the myth of finding "the One": the one partner you're "meant" to be with, your soul mate, your Prince Charming, the girl of your dreams. Nonmonogamous folks reject this myth and acknowledge that no one person can be, or should be expected to be, everything for another.

One morning shortly after Wren turned seven years old, her parents wrestled her into her best blue wool dress, pinned her down to oil her curly hair, and took her up the mountain to be eaten by a dragon.

Maybe the lost continent.

Something is coming to shake the earth. (That was definitely Darkstalker, rising from his prison.) Something is coming to scorch the ground. (He was pretty sure this was Darkstalker, too.) Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice. (Why? When? How soon?) Unless the lost city of night can be found.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

It's a prime example of a zombie idea—an idea that should have been killed by evidence, but refuses to die.

Legends simply don't live or die like men

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

It's just, honey, Cinderella doesn't really do anything.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.