Quotes About Myth

Superstitions add texture to life.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.

We cannot experience the world, even for an instant, without experiencing it through some myth, some narrative structure that sorts out our experiences and gives them meaning to us.

Amythia," the pathological lack of myths, has been diagnosed as the root cause of any number of modern sociological and psychological evils.

The irony here, and it's not a small one, is that our culture is anything but bereft of myths. Whatever the sources of our many problems, a myth shortage is emphatically not among them.

Far off from these a slow and silent stream,Lethe the river of oblivion rolls.

What never yet was heard in tale or song,From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

In our time, when men have looked upon earth from afar, seeing it as a small, glistening sphere spinning in the black sea of space, it requires a long backward flight of the imagination to appreciate earlier perceptions of earth. They were visions of wonder and myth, and often they were marvelously wrong.

Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!

The myth of Rome's everlastingness had been given relentless voice in Virgil's Aeneid, only to shatter with the sack of Rome in 410.

The myth of a golden age of public schooling is the creation of Ell-wood P. Cubberley, Dean of Teacher Education at Stanford University. There never was such a thing.

Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.

My people say Gaea likes a good story, and she likes great heroes. Are you a hero?

The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth.

The Cinderella Game Kelly Link

the horse's head whipped up and he reared straight into the air. Colin ignored him and poured the oats. 'You look as if you're trying to fly,' he told the animal. 'I believe I'll name you after my former ship, the /Daedalus/. The ship was named after a Greek man who flew too close to the sun for comfort, but made it back to earth.

OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

Meninas bonitas em contos de fadas são tão banais como seixos na praia.

there grew up around the campfires stories of a great silver stallion seen galloping over wind-packed snow way up on the Ramshead Range; of a ghost horse that drank at the Crackenback River; of a horse that all men thought was dead appearing in a blizzard at Dead Horse hut and vanishing again; of the wild stallion cry that could only be Thowra's. But no man knew where the son of Bel Bel roamed

On few subjects has more nonsense been written than on the learning of Shakespeare.