419 Quotes About Myth

Anubis, Jackal-god, Ultimate Guide of Mortal Souls, Vice-President in charge of the Afterlife Department, was well aware of the overcrowding in the purgatories. But to let a fiend of this magnitude reincarnate after only two thirds of his penance rubbed him the wrong way.

In the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help.

Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

He was heartbroken, I say.Heartbroken, he repeats. Of course. That's the great myth Edward Monkford's spun around himself, isn't it? The tormented genius who lost the love of his life and became an arch-minimalist as a result.You don't think that's right?I know it isn't.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

O mito não passa da face misteriosa e oculta do Logos, que terá de ser continuamente por nós desvelada para aclarar nosso próprio destino sobre a Terra.Pois é do mito que fala o Logos.Das iluminações, dos presságios, das forças do inconsciente que se querem incorporadas e assumidas pela Consciência para, cada vez mais, ativar o milagre do Ser nas suas mais surpreendentes epifanias, o milagre do Ser manifesto nos arquétipos, nos sonhos, nas prodigiosas utopias concebidas pelo homem.

One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century “did not learn that the South had lost the war until he was twelve years old. ‘It was one of the saddest awakenings I ever had,’” he recalled. Similarly, Margaret Mitchell remembered that she “heard so much about the fighting and hard times after the war that I firmly believed Mother and Father had been through it all instead of being born long afterward.” [141—42]

Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning…