Mythical Narratives Quotes

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

In the beginning was the myth.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.