Quotes about Myth

The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul; The soul is always beautiful . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . it comes or lags behind

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

The old myth traveled upward and outward; the new travels downward and inward.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true!

in what myth does a man live nowadays? In the Christian myth, the answer might be. "Do you live in it?" I asked myself. To be honest, the answer was no. For me it is not what I live by. "Then do we no longer have any myth?" "No, evidently we no longer have any myth." "But then what is your myth — the myth in which you do live?" At this point the dialogue with myself became uncomfortable, and I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.