Quotes from Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
— Joseph Campbell
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
— Joseph Campbell
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
— Joseph Campbell
Great is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be who find it." And
— Joseph Campbell
Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
— Joseph Campbell
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
— Joseph Campbell
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
— Joseph Campbell
lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.
— Joseph Campbell
Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self
— Joseph Campbell
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
— Joseph Campbell
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
— Joseph Campbell