938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater lifes pain, the greater lifes reply.

Don't do anything that isn't play