#myth

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#certainly #evil #good #make #myths

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#big fan #breaking #fan #i #misunderstood

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble

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

— Dennis Potter

#beautiful #construct #creative #myth #opposed

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#charm #education #give #hope #impart

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#came #ears #greek #mythology #our

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#contemporary #fiction #mythology #dreams

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#almost #became #endless #grandparents #mythic

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#mythology #dreams

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin