Mythology Quotes

“Slowly she raises her eyes to heaven. Then out loud, without looking upon me, she spits these words: "Gods. Kings. Heroes of Greece." There is something she wants to address to these ideas, something complex, rich, bitter. She looks for the words, and can only find these: "Fuck you all.”
― Claire North, The Last Song of Penelope

“And so Asterion became the Minotaur. My mother's private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer; instead, he became my father's display of dominance to the world.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth.
I would know him in the death, at the end of the world”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past”
― R.M. Liuzza, Beowulf

“...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past.”
― R.M. Liuzza, Beowulf

“Look at the great gifts the gods have given you, Athene's tapestry proclaims. Arachne's response is very detailed in its execution, but very simple in its message: the price is too high.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“The ties that bind in piety were overcome by fear, and he surrendered them for punishment: a brother's pardonable cowardice.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Asterion,' she told me.

'It means star.'

Asterion. A distant light in an infinity of darkness. A raging fire if you came too close. A guide that would lead my family on the path to immortality. A divine vengeance upon us all. I did not know then what he would become. But my mother held him and nursed him and named him and he knew us both. He was not yet the Minotaur. He was just a baby. He was my brother.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“You cannot relay the wisdom of the forest to one who has sheltered indoors for too long.”
― Lauren J.A. Bear, Mother of Rome

“Americans worship Batman and Spiderman, Indians worship Monkeyman and Lionman, Egyptians honor Falconman and Catwoman. Fantasies are apekind's escape from the mundane, problem is when fantasy turns humans into vegetable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“At one stupendous evolutionary moment in pre-history, one of nature's creatures separated himself from the unconscious flowing and burgeoning of nature and became conscious of himself. Prometheus stole fire. Adam ate the apple. Man sundered his bond with nature and set himself on a course of conscious individuation. In his mythologies, man has forever after felt guilt about that sundering. For when he became conscious of himself, man was able to choose between good and evil, and he realized that he was flawed, striving for good but prone to evil. He had taken a momentous step forward, but something in him, and in his myths, still longed for the half-remembered union with unconscious nature, that innocence lost long ago.”
― M. Owen Lee, Wagner's Ring Turning the Sky Round

“The stories that I like, the ones that make me jealous and fill me with wild desire to write just like them have the same dazzling logic as the old Basque man; there's a piece missing, and that gap transforms them into a myth.”
― Álvaro Enrigue, Hipotermia

“I do not touch his arm nor kiss his cheek nor run my fingers across his brow as he leaves the women to their labours, for I am Athena, and my love is marble within my chest.”
― Claire North, The Last Song of Penelope

“A hero is simply someone who does something the gods fancy. Their own motives matter not.”
― Bryn Estelle, The Scholar's Gambit

“Il problema che sto affrontando sarebbe infatti disseppellire l’anima da quella tomba chiamata inconscio. Esiste infatti una strada che passa pericolosamente vicina alla via del fantasma magico, ed è quella dell’inconscio, altre strade che passano pericolosamente vicine tanto da poter sviare all’ultimo sono quelle di anima e spirito.”
― Dario Oliveri, Fantasma magico

“Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.”
― Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth

“If the greatest playwright of all time was a hoax, wouldn't that have been exposed in the last, oh, four hundred years?" Darnell asked.

"I think a hoax can look like history," Melina replied, "if you mistake mythology for truth.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name

“See that little red dot up there? That’s Ma’adim."
Ištar followed his gaze.
"All the damage we caused with our callousness—the air pollution, the ground pollution, and the water pollution. We were so arrogant. How we treated our planet. Never thinking about the future. It was supposed to fix everything. You know that device that killed our planet? I helped design the energy lattice," Enki whispered. "To fix our planet."
Ištar frowned. "The Planet-Killer?"
Enki nodded, eyes never leaving the sky. "We called it the Tablet of Destinies. Poetic, maybe. It was a terraforming system—climate regulation, tectonic stability, atmospheric tuning. Designed to bring life."
"So what went wrong?"
"Kingu,”
― Susan Weimer, The Ashes of Eden

“You fought with honor, my son. Rest now.”
― Deni Ar Dente, Code Gaia: Emergence

“We carry within us a multiplicity - we are not one voice, but many.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“Imagine this scene as the council of gods inside you. When you face a tough decision or a strong temptation, it is as if these inner gods gather in debate or even combat. In the reverberations of their shouts and whispers, we recognize our own internal struggle.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“The image of a man deliberately constraining his freedom in order to achieve a greater goal resonates powerfully through the ages. We may not face singing sirens on a remote isle, but every person harbors their own sirens—alluring distractions and destructive temptations. Like Odysseus, we are strapped to a journey, and along the way we will inevitably hear those calls.”
― Kevin L. Michel

“There are things in this world that have no explanation. When you come across these things, you have two options. Option one is to try to make things make sense. This is what most people do. They experience something and they try to mold the event to their experiences, to understand what happened using the filter of what they already know. This never works. It only leads to confusion and frustration, yes? The second option is to accept that strange things happen, that the impossible sometimes is real. When you accept it, you can move on with your life. Our ancestors invented gods for this reason and they were happier because of it.”
― Gabino Iglesias, The Devil Takes You Home

“We must learn, child, not to fear anything that nature brings.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“That's my disgrace. The body is shaking. I needn't let it shake the god within me. Have i not already carried this body too long if it makes such a fool of me at the end?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“The image of a man deliberately constraining his freedom in order to achieve a greater goal resonates powerfully through the ages. We may not face singing sirens on a remote isle, but every person harbors their own sirens - alluring distractions and destructive temptations. Like Odysseus, we are strapped to a journey, and along the way we will inevitably hear those calls.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“Civilizations are born from the marriage of bureaucracy and mythology. The computer-based network is a new type of bureaucracy that is far more powerful and relentless than any human-based bureaucracy we’ve seen before. This network is also likely to create inter-computer mythologies that will be far more complex and alien than any human-made god. The potential benefits of this network are enormous. The potential downside is the destruction of human civilization.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Los reinos vienen y van, así como los siglos, las tradiciones, los reyes y los escritores, pero el rey Arturo siempre regresa.”
― Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

“Per ogni mito narrato, c'è un mito non narrato e innominato che gli accenna dall'ombra, affiorando per allusioni, schegge, coincidenze, senza che mai un autore osi raccontarlo di seguito come una singola storia.”
― Roberto Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia

“A silence so vast, it consumed gods.”
― Tarun Teja Kapu, Trigunaya - The Awakening: The First Echo in the War for Balance