Myth Quotes
Where legend and history blur, and where clear thinking cuts through.
This collection looks at myth from several angles — the pull of legend in storytelling, family histories that fade into folklore, and the way popular retellings of the past can drift from what actually happened. It's a page about separating fact from long-told tales.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.
I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
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One quote even compares language itself to a museum of borrowed meanings. Continue with more reflective reading on our Education Quotes and Fantasy Quotes pages.
