Mythology Quotes - Page 8

• Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

  Gerald Hausman

  Sacred, Humankind, Defined

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• Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

  Rod Serling

  Creativity, Abundance, Form

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.

  Marina Warner

  Moving, Understanding, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Fascination, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

  Malachy McCourt

  Stuff, Way, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Inspiration, Dark, Greek

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in a friendly spirit and you get to a point where the two mutual mythologies just don't intersect. So kind of the next piece I'd like to write or think about is how did this left-right divide get so weird and codified.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

  Billy Corgan

  Reality, Rocks, Important

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Rocks, Generations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Literature, Language, Appreciated

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

  Billy Childish

  Thinking, Painting, Unstoppable

  "Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh And His Definition Of The Word 'Amateur'" by Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

  Louise Erdrich

  Character, Work Out, Historical

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 2, 2005.

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• I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.

  Vera Nazarian

  Epic, Greek, Firsts

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Country, Thinking

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

  Richard Baxter

  Years, Fire, Flames

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• In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things.

  Michelle Forbes

  Blood, Vampire, Age

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• North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

  Werner Herzog

  Korea, Influence, Whole

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Character, Inspire

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• UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who accept the faith and obey his Prophets. Today, the chariots of the gods are UFOs. What we are witnessing in the past half century is the spawning of a New Age religion.

  Paul Kurtz

  Angel, Past, Age

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Eye, Fool

  "A Coat" l. 8 (1914)

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• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Theatre, Sake

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Prime, Function

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  Seth Godin

  Understanding, Important, Instant Replay

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• According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

  Richard Allen

  Sky, Tree, World

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.1, The Miegunyah Press

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