Mythology Quotes

“Again the golden-haired Eros strikes me with his purple ball and challenges me to play with a girl in fancy sandals.”

“Myths are sacred narratives, essential to the society that tells them.”

“We need myths to get by.”

“We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”

“I've always been interested in the idea of the monster and the Golem.”

“The state is the form of mythology.”

“He was living out his own myth, and we were all just characters in it.”

“The last unicorn wasn't born in a magic forest... she was born in a zoo.”

“We must all make myths.”

“Myth is not a story told for its own sake. It is a story told to speak with profound meaning to the interior world of an individual.”

“Myths are stories that explain to us the world we live in, and our place in it.”

“Kinship systems have no 'reality' at all except in relation to the myths which are rationalizations of them.”

“The story of the Goddess is an alternative to the story of the hero who must leave home and kill the dragon to be a man.”

“Myths are not lies. They are stories which tell the truth in a different way.”

“A hero is a god in disguise.”

“A seeming mermaid, a thing of the littoral, a siren.”

“A myth is not something that is not true. A myth is something that is always true.”

“Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

“Myths are very important and we are all living in a myth.”