419 Quotes About Myth

The Real Myth is "We Exist".

I’m always this colour,’ I said. ‘Because I used to be made of stone'.

It is not the myth that falls out of date, it is the way of wording it. New voices are endlessly needed to swell their throats with song. Poetry is the unbroken lineage.

I could tell that he had heard about me and that I would soon be a figure in the stories he would tell his grandchildren. A strange figure: "The man who kept asking everyone about the yeti, and who himself looked like one."I did not want to know that tale, but I knew that it meant that the tale of the yeti - in some form - would exist forever.Storytellers die; their stories live on.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.

Money talks, I record.

Þar liggr hann till ragnarøkrs

-Yo no aspiro a la fama ni me importa la eternidad. Me conformo con dejar buen recuerdo a los que me hayan conocido. Al fin y al cabo, nuestro valor es el de las cosas que dejemos al marcharnos.