Quotes about myth




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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

Barthes, Roland on myth    Share


"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."

Calvino, Italo on myth    Share

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

Campbell, Joseph on myth
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"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved."

Edman, Irwin on myth    Share

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

Feibleman, James on myth    Share

"There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is."

Ionesco, Eugene on myth    Share

"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

Lawrence, D. H. on myth    Share

"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."

Levi-Strauss, Claude on myth    Share

"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

Marcus, Greil on myth    Share

"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

Orwell, George on myth    Share

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Rushdie, Salman on myth    Share

"All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence."

Stevens, Wallace on myth    Share

"The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels."

Strabo, Mikhail on myth    Share

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final."

Thompson, Hunter S. on myth    Share

"One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else."

Ward, Mrs. Humphrey on myth    Share

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