Quotes about mythology are profound statements that provide insights into the ancient stories, beliefs, and legends of different cultures. These quotes encapsulate the timeless wisdom and symbolism found in mythological tales, which have been passed down through generations. They shed light on the universal themes of creation, heroism, love, and the human condition, offering valuable lessons and perspectives on life. Quotes about mythology serve as reminders of our collective heritage and the rich tapestry of stories that have shaped human civilization.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. — Joseph Campbell
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. — Maynard James Keenan
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Feibleman
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. — Steve Crocker
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. — Thomas Mann
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them. — Albert Camus
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. — John Boorman
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. — John Granger
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. — George Orwell
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. — Joseph Campbell
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover
Short Mythology Quotes
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
A group would rather keep living in the mythology of we were repressed than ever admit failure. — Naval Ravikant
Love cannot live where there is no trust. — Edith Hamilton
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. — Joseph Campbell
If you want to change the world, change yourself. — Madonna Ciccone
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. — Dian Fossey
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. — Rick Riordan
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology. — Sayings
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Norse Mythology Quotes
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. — Penelope Lively
You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars. — Jorge Luis Borges
I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories. — Michael Boatman
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies. — Grant Morrison
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters. — Rick Riordan
Greek Mythology Quotes
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed. — Rick Riordan
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. — Plato
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games. — Isabelle Fuhrman
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. — Christopher Nolan
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton — Edith Hamilton
In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world... — Hyman Rickover
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods. — Martin Scorsese
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. — J. K. Rowling
Mythical Creatures Quotes
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. — Cornelia Funke
I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. — Brendon Urie
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament. — Marc Chagall
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. — Stephenie Meyer
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk. — Demetri Martin
There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding. — Julia Golding
You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella — Stephenie Meyer
It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game. — Roger Zelazny
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world. — Lian Hearn
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult
Myth Quotes
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. — Robert Fulghum
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? — John Lennon
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. — Joseph Campbell
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. — Gurbaksh Chahal
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. — Rigoberta Menchu
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether. — Nikola Tesla
I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating. — Assata Shakur
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. — Hirohito
Greek Myth Quotes
As the ancient Greeks replaced myth-based explanations with mechanistic models of the Solar System, their emphasis shifted from asking why to asking how. — Max Tegmark
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. — E. O. Wilson
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis. — Carl Jung
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos. — Emma Thompson
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. — Vladimir Nabokov
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology. — Steve Sabol
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. — David S. Goyer
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. — George Saunders
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards. — Louis Leterrier
Power Of Myth Quotes
Nothing is more powerful than a compelling story, especially in the framework of a revolution, which entails a struggle to create new symbols, new vocabularies, new ways of looking at the world, new identities, new myths. — Stephen Kotkin
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. — Joseph Campbell
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. — Joseph Campbell
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us. — Joseph Campbell
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. — Joseph Campbell
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. — Joseph Campbell
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. — Joseph Campbell
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. — Hans Ree
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions. — Rudolf Bultmann
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes. — Joseph Campbell
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. — Carl Jung
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. — Wallace Stevens
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. — Farley Mowat
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. — Fritjof Capra
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. — Jack Kevorkian
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. — Peter Coyote
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it. — Glenn Quinn
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience. — Scott Bedbury
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems. — William Carey
Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality. — Sun Ra
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard
Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish. — William Poundstone
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it. — Dennis McKinsey
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. — Nick Cave
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world. — Bronislaw Malinowski
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology. — Harriet Martineau
The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them. — Rudolf Bultmann
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. — Vangelis
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. — Jody Williams
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race. — Stanley Kunitz
My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti. — Justin Bieber
In Conclusion
Exploring quotes about mythology allows us to delve into the depths of human imagination and understand the roots of our cultural identity. These quotes often highlight the mythical gods and goddesses, legendary creatures, and epic quests that form the backbone of ancient mythologies. They emphasize the power of storytelling and the role of myth in helping us make sense of the world around us. Quotes about mythology provide a glimpse into the mystical realm of gods and heroes, fostering a sense of wonder and enchantment while teaching us about the enduring truths and values embedded in these ancient narratives.
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