#myths

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#antiquity #back #basic #because #eternal

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life. ↗

— John Singleton

#because #black #honest #i #know

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#apparatus #believed #cared #ceremonies #connected

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

You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer. Everything. ↗

— Mike Carey & Peter Gross

#everything #gorgon #greek-myths #medusa #age

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#truth #age

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#fine-arts #life #myths #power #art

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#myths #persephone #pierce-oliviera #death