"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."

Mythology, Myth, Truth, Explanation, Story

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"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."

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"One definition occurred to both of them-that he had come out into the light of that lucid and radiant ignorance in which all beliefs had begun. The sky above them was full of mythology. Heaven seemed deep enough to hold all the gods."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Mythology, Belief, Faith, Ignorance

"While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Mythology, Power, Light, Myth, Knowledge

"The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Mythology, Grief, Time, Change

"Gaea? Leo shook his head. "Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry."Leo, that's Snow White, Piper said."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Mythology, Humor, Truth, Happiness

"Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Mythology, Devil, Conflict, Choice

"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Mythology, Repetition, Myth, Humanity, Innocence

"Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?"

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Mythology, Man, Power, Humanity

"Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths " projections of human beings innermost desires " intermixed with fragments of factual reality."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Mythology, Religion, Truth, Imagination

"On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mythology, End, Fate, Power

"Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Mythology, Fear, Life, Power

Explore more quotes by John Geddes

"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."

Authenticity

"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

Tradition

"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."

Confession

"Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."

Psychology

"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."

Psychology

"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."

Beauty

"If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum..."

Memory

"You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on..."

Emotion

"Nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters..."

Nature

"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."

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