Quotes about Myths

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We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, — Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synony — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever. — Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps
Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sur — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and — Sulari Gentill, Chasing Odysseus
It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance. — Sulari Gentill, Chasing Odysseus
New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've all been laughing h — Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
The moment that all these myths were brought together in so-called 'holy books'has -without any doubt- to be seenas the — A.J. Beirens
To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Ev — John G. Jackson, Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth
He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmith — Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
We had traveled far and long to get here but were still the same still-born, unreconstructed people who had once met on — John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque
Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more. — Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which — Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose
It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.~ Rudra — Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. — Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind reveals true fragments — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealin — Matthew Screech
We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in — Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or th — Jeffrey Tayler