"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."

Myth, Fire, Power, Symbolism

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"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."

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"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."

Jessica Lange, American Actress

Myth,

"How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Myth, Love, Courage, Beauty

"On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Myth, Earth, Dream, Fear, Sleep

"The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Myth, War, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"The more real things get, the more like myths they become."

Rainer W. Fassbinder, German Filmmaker

Myth, Myths

"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

Paul McCartney, English Musician

Myth,

"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Myth, Meaning, Psychology, Life

"O weep for Adonis - He is dead.' 'Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Myth, Life, Death, Observation, Dream

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

Dennis Potter, British Dramatist

Myth, Therapy

"The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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Explore more quotes by Cormac McCarthy

"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."

Family

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

Fate

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

Trust

"I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does."

Doubt

"Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed."

Life

"It takes very little to govern good people."

Leadership

"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."

Memory

"Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."

Memory

"On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world."

Faith

"Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And for a long time afterward, he would have reason to recall those smiles and reflect upon the goodwill that inspired them — for it had the power to protect, to confer honor, and to strengthen resolve. It had the power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."

Reflection