#mythology

It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy. ↗

— Robin Burks

#fantasy #mythology-fiction #funny

Wait a minute, hold on... The dude dies, and the girl cries so hard that she gets turned into a fountain? ↗

— Caroline Goode

#humor #mythology #funny

Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow. ↗

— Tai Odunsi

#greek-mythology #humor #mythology #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #humor

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creation-myths #mythology #science #science

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ↗

— Virgil

#greek #greek-mythology #mythology #mythology

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mythology #parting #inspirational

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #mythology #men

It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to guide me to the underworld. ↗

— Chika Onyenezi

#inspirational #inspirational

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#generation #legends #modern #mythology #nobody