Quotes About Myth

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining.

She had always been a practical girl, and was one still. "I know there's no such thing as what you say we are. It's a fairy tale, a compilation of people's groundless fears.

We still cling as a culture to the myth of the single writer succeeding on their own as fiercely as we cling to the myth of the self-made billionaire. But that isn't what a disabled poetics and practice has to be.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Elállt az es?, a földek fölött kisütött a nap. Halvány szivárvány nyújtózott a szürke égbolt alatt. Monza kíváncsi lett volna, tényleg manók laknak-e a tövében, ahogyan az apja mondta neki, vagy ott is csak szar van, ahogy mindehol máshol. Kihajolt a nyeregb?l és a búza közé köpött. Manószar talán.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

As with so many things in life, heroic last stands are a great deal more appealing in concept than in reality.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

For reasons rooted in mass psychology, the history of myth, and the changing face of America, this country cares deeply who is in charge of the Walt Disney Company and what they do with it.

Let me tell you something. The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

On the other hand, it was a well-known fact that cell phones were tools of the devil. He selected

Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors.

These, and many of the other best-known legends of the Rosebud, are false…the ghost stories of people who have seen too many horror movies and who think they know exactly how a ghost story should be.

U krš?anstvu doduše poznajemo kultnu anamnezu; no imamo li - barem u za?ecima - doista anamneti?ku kulturu koja kultski spomen muke povezuje s našim povijesnim iskustvima te tako sprje?ava da muka na koncu bude slavljena samo kao od povijesti udaljeni mit?

Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts" in your conscious mind at once. That's it. "We're very, very single-minded." We have "very limited cognitive capacity." This is because of the "fundamental structure of the brain," and it's not going to change. But rather than acknowledge this, Earl told me, we invented a myth. The myth is that we can actually think about three, five, ten things at the same time.

The term doesn't really make any sense, she said: we don't know what a "chemically balanced" brain would look like. People are told that drugs like antidepressants restore a natural balance to your brain, she said, but it's not true—they create an artificial state. The whole idea of mental distress being caused simply by a chemical imbalance is "a myth," she has come to believe, sold to us by the drug companies.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.