789 Quotes About Mythology

Sisyphus taught me one truth that mortals aren't supposed to know— that the gods need mankind far more than the mankind need the gods. The cosmos is a paradox. Gods created the mortals, and mortals created the gods.

Water would fuck up a phone-person. A celestial being wouldn’t personify an inanimate, man-made object; that’s just stupid. They could only take the form of an idea.

Midnight SteelWhen Love’s steel draws near it doth but conspire,And pierces she the hearts of all she holds and so desires.Come thou, dear Love, to sleep, rest in your arms and dream but deep.Help me to love all of my days, so that on sweet earth I may stay.—Valkyrie Kari, Musings in the Night

Godly tug of war / Not recommended for kids. / Or Lesters, either.

Longer metaphors, in the form of stories, allow more sophisticated relationships: […] In planning, the boundaries between myth, history and fiction are not so consequential as one might think.

Quite soon, she would tell the secret. Mrs. Chapman put away her work in the long, wooden chest in her bedroom. For a few minutes, she peered through the frosty glass of her bedroom window, watching the snow tumble, earthwards. Then, the last drop of light was squeezed out from and ink black sky

My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose voice you have heard all these hours, all these days...It was I who told you to read, and to bear witness....Didn't you know? Didn't you guess?

But you were the one who really taught him healing," Achilles said."I was.""You do not mind that the snake gets all the credit?"Chiron's teeth showed through his dark beard. A smile. "No, Achilles, I do not mind.

Yes we are angry, yes we are making a noise about it, and yes, we are hungry for change. We are harpies.