789 Quotes About Mythology

His lips caressed her ear. “Best dance of my entire life.

Within the infinite myths lies the eternal truth

There must be something in here that can drill through eight miles ofsolid rock.”He considered a hand drill, a tape measure, a corkscrew, and the iron staff we’d almost died retrieving from Geirrod’s fortress. He threw them all to the floor.“Nothing!” he said in disgust. “Useless junk!”Perhaps you could use your head, Hearthstone signed. That is very hard.“Oh, don’t try to console me, Mr. Elf,” said Thor.

The fifth race is that which is now upon the earth: the iron race. They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil, so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow. As the generations pass, they grow worse; sons are always inferior to their fathers. A time will come when they have grown so wicket that they will worship power, might will be right to them, and reverence for the good will cease to be.

Like a god, / I believe in nothing.

It is not the myth that falls out of date, it is the way of wording it.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.

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

Fairest of the deathless gods.This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

We're wired to see patternslike pictures in grilled cheese.On Mars, in stars, in cliffsides -Oh, the things we once believed!