Quotes About Myth

Lo guardavo dalla finestra e mi tornava in mente una storia che una volta mi aveva raccontato su un grosso serpente in cui gli uomini del nord credono, la cui brama è quella di divorare il mondo." Ricordavo anche io quella storia. Alla fine, il serpente divora se stesso.

He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

His eyes opened. 'Name one hero who was happy

there is a story you should hear.

No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness.

There was a Swedish team that had even managed to torpedo the myth of the English bobby and reduce it to its proper proportions, namely, to the fact that the English police are not armed and therefore don't provoke violence to the same degree as certain others. Even in Denmark responsible authorities had managed to grasp this fact, and only in exceptional situations were policemen permitted to sign out weapons.

If all relationships started badly, Prince Charming would disappear from every fairy tale ever written and romantic comedies would be filed under horror.

The evidence for any sort of Arthur, however, king or otherwise, is hopelessly thin and inadequate.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

In the final analysis, therefore, the tomb of Edward I may stand, like the unfinished castle at Caernarfon, not only as a monument to the past, but also as a warning to the future: a final reminder of the power of myth to shape men's minds and motives, and thus to alter the fate of nations.

Logic is often cast aside, when fear and superstition run unchecked,' my friend said.

European nightmare – the delusional myth of one blood, one race, one people. And

Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

To be a hero holds honor but to be a legend is to live forever.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

For all I know, the guy is Dracula.