Mythology Quotes
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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
*to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard
— Eoin Colfer
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Did you bring me a rat?"
"He has no time for rats, George."
"No time for rats? That's just sad. — Rick Riordan
"He has no time for rats, George."
"No time for rats? That's just sad. — Rick Riordan
Swords can't solve every problem.
— Rick Riordan
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
— Richard Allen
Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one.
— Helen Boswell
IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE
— Charleston Parker
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
— Joseph Campbell
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
— Brendan Fraser
In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.
— Jesmyn Ward
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
— Sophocles
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
— Joseph Campbell
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
— Donna Leon
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
— Aml Ameen
He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.
— Lisa Kessler
Man..." He blew out an exasperated breath. "Do you push everyone away this hard, or is it just me?
— Lisa Kessler
I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not.
— Denise Grover Swank
Unicorns aren't magical and beautiful. They're just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins.
— Delilah S. Dawson
I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
— Isabel Lucas
My death granted immortality.
With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing ... Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy — Sarah J. Pepper
With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing ... Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy — Sarah J. Pepper
an uncertain mythology
in which one hears the names
when the wind stops
of all the false gods — Jean Follain
in which one hears the names
when the wind stops
of all the false gods — Jean Follain
Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan
— Helen Boswell
This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.
— Tai
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
— William Shatner
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
— Elizabeth Janeway
But like I told you guys years ago: this demigod gig is dangerous. Don't say I didn't warn you.
— Rick Riordan
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.
— Zsuzsanna Budapest
Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.
— Sapan Saxena
Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
— Rick Riordan
I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?"
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals. — Chloe Neill
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals. — Chloe Neill
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
— Bryan Sykes
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
— Frank Herbert
Alecto was the oldest, unceasing in anger. Magaera was next, retaliator of jealousy, and Tisiphone, the last, regarded as the avenger of murder.
— Elisabeth Naughton
Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.
— Gerard Brennan
There is at least one truth in every myth.
— Suzy Kassem
I would die for you.
— Nely Cab
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
— Martin Parr
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.
— Stefan Molyneux
There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.
— D.B. Patterson
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
— Mads Mikkelsen
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
— Joseph Campbell
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
— Iris Murdoch
The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.
— Jostein Gaarder
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
— Willa Cather
One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He'd yet to see her skin; the dragon had claimed her on scent alone.
— Setta Jay
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
— Henry David Thoreau
Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.
— Tai
But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?
— Amie Kaufman
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
— Swami Vivekananda
Keep eating me up with those eyes, little Goddess, and I'll be so deep inside that hot little pussy you won't remember what you came here for.
— Setta Jay
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
— Carl Jung
I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
— Robert Redford
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
— Plutarch
My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.
— Yelle Hughes
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.
— Jennifer Estep
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."
— Tom Cavanagh
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
— Rick Riordan
As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.
— Leanna Renee Hieber
It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.
— Sulari Gentill
Mythology works ... because Indians have been bred on myths.
— Ashwin Sanghi
It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.
— Joan Holub
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
— Joseph Campbell
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
— Ray William Johnson
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
— Martin Shaw
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
— Neil Gaiman
I like mythology - anything historical.
— Cassie Steele
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken
— Beverley Cross
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
— Alistair Cooke
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
— Neil Gaiman
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
— Tobias Wolff
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
— Billy Childish
Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
We were friends before." Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.
— Amanda Bouchet
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
— Anne Rice