"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."

Mythology, Order, Chaos, Love, Myth

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"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."

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"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Mythology, Myth, Symbolism, Imagination, Meaning

"Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mythology, Story, Myth, Truth, Fantasy

"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?"

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mythology, Creation, Question, Evil

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

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Mythology, Devil, Conflict, Choice

"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

"In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Mythology, Life, Truth, Power

"The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Mythology, Freedom, Change, Spirit, Chaos

"Satan fell by the force of gravity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Mythology, Fall, Gravity, Power, Myth

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

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Mythology, Repetition, Myth, Humanity, Innocence

"Aren't all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth.Pandora's box is a story parents read to their children at night, she countered. "That means life itself is afairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

Mythology, Myth, Life, Love, Story

Explore more quotes by George Eliot

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

Character

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

Relationship

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

Wisdom

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

Behavior

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

Man

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Love

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."

Love

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

History

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

Experience

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

Life