419 Quotes About Myth

Picking Your side is just another myth, you are already involved in what you want.

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

There is no better way of getting to know myths than through someone to whom they are still a living part of reality.

Enchantments and Dreams: I suspect they are made of the same stuff. They each beguile the mind and confuse the senses with wonder and strangeness so all that was familiar becomes freakish, and the most bizarre of things intimate and natural.

Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through it, they came past countless moons and suns. One laughed and briefly wore a scarf of raindrops in her hair, and then with wicked feet she kicked a cloud and caused rain to swamp a boat.

Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more dangerous...

The ant… the foolish ant,sitting on the edge of an enormous discspinning about its axis, reckons at every instant of time,that it’s progressing forward.Who would hold a mirror up to it? And convey it the truth,Clearing out its fallacy,Clean as a hound’s tooth.The fallacy that it can seethe whole dimension in entirety.Shall it ever concede,If one tries to enlighten?Or, inured by canard shall it fightTo win against what is right?

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness ofnormality that is just a myth.

We’ve read our own myths into the world.