Quotes About Myth

We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is a thing (a tangible structure rather than an abstract process) and the other is that memory is a thing (one memory rather than many memories).

Laila lay there and listened, wishing Mammy would notice that she, Laila, hadn't become shaheed, that she was alive, here, in bed with her, that she had hopes and a future. But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. A receptacle for their myths. The parchment on which Mammy meant to ink their legends.

Laila lay there and listened, wishing Mammy would notice that she, Laila, hadn't become shaheed, that she was alive, here, in bed with her, that she had hopes and a future. But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. A receptacle for their myths. The parchment on which Mammy meant to ink their legends

But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. A receptacle for their myths. The parchment on which Mammy meant to ink their legends.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

Oh God, Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore.

Götterdämmerung Syndrome

We are making a better way to live. This was the myth, they had all grown up with it.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians ~ The Witch of the North

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

All religions are true but none are literal.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.