Quotes of: Myths Keyword

A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

The Myth of You and Me

Viene sempre il momento in cui bisogna scegliere fra la contemplazione e l'azione. Ciò si chiama diventare un uomo.

The Myth of Sisyphus

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Here is one reason I think we always need new tarot decks being created. I think of tarot decks as similar to myths and so I think this quote applies: "Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, ...

Life

you can do it if you put your mind into it.

The Fall of Myth Drannor

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Hero: Myth/image/symbol, The

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

O absurdo é essencialmente um divórcio. Não está num nem outro dos elementos comparados. Nasce do seu confronto.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Ray Bradbury

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Rollo May

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

Gabrielle Union

Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family's myth: the myth ...

Healing from Family Rifts: Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off from a Family Member Member

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

The Beauty Myth

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ ]

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

The Myth of Male Power