Myth Quotes

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. (John F. Kennedy)
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. View quote
Thom Yorke
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. View quote
Jean Cocteau
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. View quote
Robert Heller
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. (Robert Jordan)
Myth is the nothing that is everything. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' View quote
Paul McCartney
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe 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. View quote
Robert Fulghum
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. View quote
Norman Spinrad
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. (Al Goldstein)
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. View quote
David Antin
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. View quote
Linda Evans
I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me. View quote
Halle Berry
Though he [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously. View quote
Robert M. Price