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“Independence is a myth
rooted in--and perpetuated by--privilege.

There is no independence,
only interdependence.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Collectively we turned a beautiful life into the myth of a monster. We turned a family home into a ghost house. And from now on we must do better.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Cancel Culture doesn't really exist. It's a myth created by people who have been used to saying whatever they want without being challenged and are now surprised when there are consequences to their words. Rowling is still a very rich bestselling author with a massive platform.

(7/8/2020 on Twitter)”
― Natasha Devon

“But the mistery of the woman is no less a mystery than death. Childbirth is no less a mystery; nor the flow of the mother's milk; nor the menstrual cycle -in its acoord with the moon. The creative magic of the female body is a thing of wonder in itself.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

“Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

“For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

“...we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which, man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“But the mystery of the being of your wristwatch will be identical with the mystery of the being of the universe and of yourself as well.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“The hnakra is our enemy, but he is also our beloved. We feel in our hearts his joy as he looks down from the mountain of water in the north where he was born; we leap with him when he jumps the falls; and when winter comes, and the lake smokes higher than our heads, it is with his eyes that we see it and know that his roaming time is come.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

“What is the kingdom [of God]? it lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“What is the kingdom [of God]? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“I miss her, and not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness you wish they were there to enjoy it.

I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is that I’m here smiling and I know how much she’d like to see that.”
― Brandon Villasenor

“There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honorâ€� It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“We must leave the Bible to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, fiction, myth, dreams, all produced by what classical psychology would have called the faculty of imagination.”
― Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

“Beside the other two Wayland appeared clumsy, his shoulders almost too broad for the rest of his body, while he moved as clumsily as a bear too, tripping over things, knocking them down; except only when he was at work - and then his clumsiness like a bear’s was also elegance; then each of his movements meshed in with the next, each of his muscles co-ordinated, the whole of him was focused to one end, like a sword towards the man it is killing. That end was perfection”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Faber Book of Northern Folk-Tales

“The stories of unicorns are buried under myth, legend and magic but did you know that they cannot survive in a place where Love, Truth and Freedom refuse to exist?”
― Reena Doss

“Because myths miss out all the sordid realities and preserve only What we wish we’d done, rather than How we actually did it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race

“The mystery of today is that yesterday is gone and tomorrow is a myth”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“A creation myth lays the foundation for how you got here, where you came from, and what your role is now that you’re here.”
― Eric Overby

“A creation myth lays the foundation for how you got here, where you came from, and what your role is now that you’re here.

Depending on the civilization and myth, it can tell you who’s in charge and what they value. There’s something interesting about the power of narrative. How can a story from so long ago influence so many people for so long?”
― Eric Overby

“Human ideology is the result: a tabloid concoction of religious conviction, political idealism, urban myth, tribal myth, wishful thinking, memorable anecdote, and pseudo-science.”
― Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

“Too often the nature of my existence leaves me viewing paradise as a myth of the most fanciful sort instead of a reality of the most factual sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Testament of the Hollow

“Intense religious experiences and crisis conversions seem to be a common response when the contradictions and tragedies of life create existencial threats.”
― Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

“A story where myth, fantasy, fairy tale, or science fiction explore and ask questions moves beyond pragmatic dailiness to wonder. Rather than taking the child away from the real world, such stories are preparation for living in the real world with courage and expectancy. A child who has been denied imaginative literature is likely to have far more difficulty in understanding cellular biology or post-Newtonian physics than the child whose imagination has already been stretched by reading fantasy and science fiction.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life