Quotes about Myths

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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, — Friedrich Nietzsche
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analog — Christopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and w — C. JoyBell C.
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle ge — Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. — Meg Cabot, Abandon
Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cueva — Popol Vuh
Eventually, Krysomallos would be skinned for his fleece, which became known as the Golden Fleece, which means I am relat — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has al — Amit Abraham
Myths are what remain once the history of an event has been forgotten or lost to time. Myths are like the memory of one’ — Shatrujeet Nath
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single — N.K. Jemisin
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds. — Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an ac — Andy Rooney, Sincerely, Andy Rooney
Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the wa — Nathan Myhrvold
Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting — Neel Burton, For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily — Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with — Benjamin Franklin, Remarks Concerning the Savages
You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently i — Sulari Gentill, Chasing Odysseus
That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works — Aron Ra
There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the — Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5