Quotes About Myth

Heeft je vader het ooit over de Zieleneters gehad?' Torak fronste. 'Nee. Daar heb ik nog nooit van gehoord.' 'Dan moet je de enige in het hele Woud zijn.' … 'Waarom heetten ze Zieleneters?' vroeg hij, bijna zonder zijn lippen te bewegen. 'Aten ze echt zielen?' 'Wie weet? De mensen werden bang, en wanneer mensen bang zijn, worden geruchten tot waarheid.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

The immortals do not die, even when they do die. Men come to be symbols, pieces in the great game.

Eventually, religion began making up dots where no dots had ever existed.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

We children moved constantly in a world where myth and fable walked hand in hand with reality, and the borderline between them was at all times nebulous and shifting. The violent world of fairytale with its Bluebeards and shirts made from thistles wasn't that far from ours.

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

We all just want to be the hero in the story. Mimi.D.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Sigur c? lumea româneasc? este cum este ÅŸi are miturile ei fundamentale, care nu sunt MioriÅ£a ÅŸi MeÅŸterul Manole, ci capra vecinului ÅŸi povestea din iad, nu? În cazanul românilor, unde niciun român nu iese la suprafa?? fiindc?-l trag ceilalÅ£i de picioare. AÅŸa c? diavolii ÅŸomeaz?.

In the Greek myth, Sisyphus, with great effort, rolls a large rock up a mountain. At the top, the rock, of its own inertia, rolls back down again. Doomed to roll the rock up the mountain over and over again to no avail—this is what life often feels like to those in extreme despair.

the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.

In the world's oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world . . . and, unlike the aloof and self-righteous patriarchal gods who only recently usurped her mountain-throne, the ancient Goddess was always there—alive, immanent—within her creation; no ontological scapegoater, she was wholly responsible for both the pain and the good of life.

What does "feminist" mean? Feminist is formed with the word "femme," "woman," and means: someone who fights for women. For many of us it means someone who fights for women as a class and for the disappearance of this class. For many others it means someone who fight for woman and her defense – for the myth, then, and its reenforcement.

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

A human society without myth has never been known, and indeed it is doubtful whether such a society is at all possible. One measure of man's advance from his most primitive beginnings to something we call civilization is the way in which he controls his myths, his ability to distinguish between the areas of behavior, the extent to which he can bring more and more of his activity under the rule of reason.

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.

The student movement's leaders and followers were together victims and propagators of a legend. We can see their illusion nowhere more clearly than in the requirement that the myth of a great student anti-fascist movement be sustained by the counter-myth of a serious student fascist conspiracy in opposition to it. The signal to arms requires an enemy; where none exists, he must be invented.

Some people can read the biography of their gods online. When and where he was born and at what place or at what age he died.

The famous rocks of David and Goliath have been transformed into rocket combats between Arabs and Jews.

The dream becomes a story, a myth. . . . And the story becomes a dream.

But the failure of Christianity is a modern myth, and we shouldn't be ashamed of telling the proper story of church history, which of course has plenty of muddle and wickedness, but also far more than we normally imagine of love and creativity and beauty and justice and healing and education and hope. To

The myth of progress fails because it doesn't in fact work; because it would never solve evil retrospectively; and because it underestimates the nature and power of evil itself and thus fails to see the vital importance of the cross, God's no to evil, which then opens the door to his yes to creation.

myth" in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense "historical" and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held beliefs of the community that tells it.