Myth Quotes - Page 3

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything.

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

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

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

I think a myth is created from truth.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

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.