938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a year or so to any young person he thought might have a future in the arts. [...]He declared he wouldn't install running water because he didn't like the class of people it attracted.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

¿Qué soy? ¿Soy la lámpara que transporta la luz, o soy la luz y la lámpara es mi vehículo?

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

Myth is much more important and true than history.