Quotes About Myth

The lie has seven endings.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

But a werewolf is a man that chages into a wolf. I've never done that. Honest I haven't." "A mammal," Said Ozymandias, "is an animal that bears its young and suckles them. A virgin is nonetheless a mammal. Because you have never changed doesn't make you less of a werewolf." "But a werewolf-" Suddenly Wolfe's eyes lit up. "A werewolf is better than a G-man!

?????, he wrote, mýthos, a conversation, a tale, a legend from the darkness before the days of Christ. "Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.

But this was just a story they told to comfort themselves.

The lost Greek tale Cloud Cuckoo Land, by the writer Antonius Diogenes, relating a shepherd's journey to a city in the sky, was probably written around the end of the first century C.E.

Maybe in the old days men did walk the earth as beasts, and a city of birds floated in the heavens between the realms of men and gods. Or maybe, like all lunatics, the shepherd made his own truth, and so for him, true it was.

the myth was a tenacious plant

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697.

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

All the Yeti footprints are all the same bear. The Yeti isn't a fantastic figure. The Yeti is reality.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.

If you made up a city like this, no one would have believed you. It seemed more like myth than reality- a whole metropolis built up around an industry that recorded dreams on giant screens, a city bordered by an ocean and a desert and snowcapped mountains. And right through the urban sprawl were canyons full of flowers, wild animals and secrets.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.