Quotes About Myth

Happiness is a myth with which a humongous majority of the population especially all filthy rich people live all throughout their life.

Old thought speaks that there is a woman behind a successful man, a new-age quote says that there are many men hidden behind the success of a woman ,but true sage knows that a gentleman remains away from the clutches & circle of women as can be seen from the history lesson.

The Godfather is no longer a film, it is a myth.

sleep is profoundly intertwined with virtually every aspect of brain health. Lack of sleep over time can lead to an irreversible loss of brain cells—yet another debunking of the myth that sleep debt can be made up.

Aphrodite embodies sexuality free of ambivalence, anxieties and self-consciousness, a sexuality so natural and quintessential to her that no myth deals with her virginity or its loss.

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren't born, they're built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

It's such a lie that women go for funny men.

Everyone wants to start a business in their garage - they think it's sexy - but when you actually sit as a 30-year-old in a garage, it's not so sexy.

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

THE RAW MATERIAL of a myth, like the raw material of a dream, may be something that actually happened once. But myths, like dreams, do not tell us much about that kind of actuality. The creation of man, Adam and Eve, the Tower of Babel, Oedipus—they do not tell us primarily about events. They tell us about ourselves. In popular usage, a myth has come to mean a story that is not true. Historically speaking that may well be so. Humanly speaking, a myth is a story that is always true.

RELIGION AS A word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage; where he senses meanings no less overwhelming because they can be only hinted at in myth and ritual; where he glimpses a destination that he can never know fully until he reaches it.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.