Quotes About Myth

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

Though I have no kids and Hollywood doesn't exist, I firmly believe, however, that it did exist. And like Rome, we are living amidst the fallen columns and clothes-lined courtyards, in the ruins of an empire of the self-enchanted which was once, briefly, more devastating than Caesar's and still brings respectable families to a hot, windy intersection in August to sigh with unnoticed despondence, "…Well…here we are…Hollywood and Vine.

An epic is a poem including history.

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be: the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer—which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself. We have made it the scapewolf for our own sins.

De strigis vero, quae non sunt, nulla quaestio fiat (Sobre las brujas, ya que no existen, no se harán indagaciones).

Mi vida ha sido siempre una repetida historia: me la paso liberándome de mitos, de gentes y de cosas; ahora me libero de mí mismo.

As an oracle to the goddess, the female outcast speaks as prophetess of times to come, interpreter of dreams of an unrevealed future. Outcasts are at home in the world of magic and infinite change. Their individual personalities merge with that of legend. Becoming vehicles of immortality, they self create their own myths, weave a spell over poets and artists and spread a belief in transcendence that heralds the future.

Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

Sl?pošana ir m?ta par S?zifu m?sdienu versija.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.

Folk tror, man kan opnå det evige liv ved at motionere. Det eneste, man bliver, er forpustet.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

También valoro la obra de Joseph Campbell. El héroe de las mil caras: psicoanálisis del mito

Mythology is what never was, but always is.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea that it was lost.

According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire.

it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change:

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians usually work with much less linguistic (and therefore less poetic) self-consciousness than writers of fiction do. They tend to treat language as a transparent vehicle of representation that brings no cognitive baggage of its own into the discourse.