100+ Myth Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.68, Baker Academic

topic: Narrative, Myth

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Writing, Portraits, Myth

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

- Jerry Rubin

topic: Would Be, Myth

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

- Jessica Lange

topic: Thinking, Feminist, Myth

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

- Joan D. Vinge

topic: Stories, Myth

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

- John Major

topic: Greek, Black, Myth, Wednesday

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

- John Powell

topic: Brain, Rockets, Myth, Brain Surgery, Rocket Science

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Depth, Consciousness, Myth, Projection

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Narrative, Metaphor, Myth

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Dream, World, Myth

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

- Karl Popper

topic: Criticism, Myth

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

- Kelly Lynch

topic: People, Care, Myth

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

- Kent McCord

topic: True Friend, Hollywood, Myth

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

- Libby Larsen

source: "Intimate Voices" by Alex Ross, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2001.

topic: Communication, Technology, Myth

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

- Luke Davies

source: Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin

topic: Adrift, Myth, Galaxy

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Soil, Ancient, Myth

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

- Margaret Halsey

source: Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

topic: People, Ridiculous, Myth, Folklore

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

- Marianne Faithfull

topic: Attitude, Myth, Turns

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

- Marilyn Quayle

topic: Brain, Wedding Ring, Myth

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

- Mark Rothko

topic: Anecdotes, Spirit, Myth

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Success, Excellence, Myth

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

- Meridel Le Sueur

source: Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.66, Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: Lying, People, Myth

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

- Michael Tsarion

topic: Myth

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

- Michel Tournier

topic: Function, Myth, Allegory

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth

- Milla Jovovich

topic: People, Myth

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

- Monique Wittig

source: Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.51, University of Illinois Press

topic: Fables, Welcome, Myth

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

- Nancy Etcoff

topic: Real, Ideas, Myth, Real Beauty, Beauty Myth

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

- Natalie Angier

source: Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Love Is, Eternal Love, Myth

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

- Natalie Goldberg

topic: Who We Are, Accepting, Myth

All systems require myths for their longevity.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Longevity, Myth

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

- Norman Spinrad

topic: Manipulation, Mexico, Myth, Archetype

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Men, Able, Myth

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

- Oliver DeMille

topic: Myth, Humans, Educate

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

- Pat Summitt

topic: Succeed, Individual, Myth, Individual Success

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

- Paul Ricoeur

source: Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press

topic: Destiny, World, Myth, Self Understanding

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

- Peter Brook

topic: Distance, Reality, Myth, Closeness

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

topic: Real, Myth

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

- Ransom Riggs

source: Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.99, Quirk Books

topic: Form, Myth

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

- Riane Eisler

topic: Reality, Hands, Myth

American public policy is run on a myth.

- Richard Lamm

source: "Lamm on the Line". Interview with Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

topic: Running, Myth, Policy

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

- Rick Santelli

source: "CNBC's Santelli Schools NYT's Friedman in Ponzi Schemes and Social Security". www.newsbusters.org. September 8, 2011.

topic: People, Needs, Myth

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

- Robert Lipsyte

source: Robert Lipsyte (1975). “Sportsworld: an American dreamland”, Crown

topic: Paper, May, Myth

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

- Samuel R. Delany

topic: Opposites, Next, Myth

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

- Scott Steiner

topic: Legends, Myth, Phenomenon

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

- Smokey Robinson

topic: Myth, Motown

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

- Sondre Lerche

topic: Song, Emotion, Myth

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

- Stacy Schiff

topic: Facts, Absence, Myth

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Gossip, Myth

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Myth

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

- Stanley Crouch

topic: Media, Violent, Myth

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

- Stephen King

topic: Reality, Firsts, Myth

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

- Steven T. Katz

topic: Fundamentals, Myth, Jew

Music is our myth of the inner life ...

- Susanne Katherina Langer

topic: Music, Music Is, Myth

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Lying, Myth

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

topic: Taken, World, Myth

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

- Therese Rein

source: "Therese Rein - passionate advocate for the disabled". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2009.

topic: People, Myth

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

- Timothy Freke

topic: Religion, Christianity, Myth

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

- Timothy Leary

topic: Myth, Wanted

I am attracted to myths.

- Tina Turner

topic: Myth

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

- W. Averell Harriman

topic: Europe, Eastern Europe, Myth, Eastern

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

- Wally Lamb

topic: Stories, Modern, Myth

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Men, Fancy, Myth

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

- Wislawa Szymborska

topic: My Family, Myth

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Juice, Pot, Myth, Folklore

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Girlfriend, Satan, Myth

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

- Jane Caputi

source: Jane Caputi (1987). “The Age of Sex Crime”, p.9, Popular Press

topic: World, Creation, Myth, Patriarchy, Creation Myths

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

- Jeff Feuerzeig

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Powerful, Fiction, Myth

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

- Juan Pablo Escobar

source: Source: harvardpolitics.com

topic: Thinking, Organization, Myth

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Myth, Loses, Universe

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

- Nyla Ali Khan

topic: India, Juggernaut, Myth, Secularism

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

- Robert D. McFadden

topic: Mafia, Myth, Dies

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

- Saul Friedlander

topic: World, Kitsch, Myth

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

- Stephen Mallinder

topic: Thinking, Process, Myth

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

- Tim Jackson

topic: Growth, Economic, Myth

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

- Tom Tykwer

topic: Film, Producers, Myth

I think a myth is created from truth.

- Mark Lanegan

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Myth

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

- Mary Garden

topic: Writing, Divorce, Myth

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

- Richard Condon

topic: Artist, Men, Myth

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

- Richard Holloway

topic: True Or False, Speak, Myth

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

- Jeff Smith

topic: Metaphor, Myth, Allegory

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Gossip, Ancient, Myth

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

- Jean Houston

source: Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

topic: Myth, Happenings

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: "What Is Literature?: And Other Essays".

topic: Writing, Portraits, Myth

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

- Lisa Ling

source: "Interview: Sonia Kennebeck, Ines Hofmann Kanna, & Lisa Ling on Giving Wings to 'National Bird'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Long, American Exceptionalism, Myth, Exceptionalism

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

topic: Imagination, Made, Myth

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Thinking, Historical, Myth

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag's Speech upon being awarded the "Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels" (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, www.tomdispatch.com. October 12, 2003.

topic: Literature, Makers, Myth

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

- Peter Thiel

topic: Myth, Values

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

- Phil Cousineau

source: Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.10, Conari Press

topic: Lying, Telling The Truth, Myth

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

- Colin Firth

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Cutting, Woody, Myth

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.72, Penguin UK

topic: Myth, Turns, All Things

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Literature, Great Literature, Myth

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

- Anais Nin

topic: Instruments, Myth

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

- Rachel Kushner

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: People, Narrative, Myth

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

- John Fowles

topic: Pairs, Lone Wolf, Myth

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

- Tim Gunn

source: "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

topic: World, Mature, Myth

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

topic: Men, Mythology, Myth

Conscience is better served by a myth.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 4, p. 111, 1977.

topic: Myth, Conscience

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

- Marlon Brando

source: "Conversations With Brando".