938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know... And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation... The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else’s path and you are not on the adventure.

I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters.’

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man’s imagination?

A ritual is the enactment of a myth.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity.

And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal – carries the cross of the redeemer – not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.

People who don’t have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.