Quotes about Mythical
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.
— Henry David Thoreau
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
— Job 40:18
God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
— John Eldredge
The first thing we learn is that worship has to do with real life. It is not a mythical interlude in a week of reality. Worship has to do with adultery and hunger and racial conflict.
— John Piper
Leviathan that crooked serpent… the dragon that is in the sea.
— Anonymous
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
— JRR Tolkien
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
— Job 41:1
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
— John Milton
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
— Soren Kierkegaard
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
— Psalm 74:14
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius.
— Henry David Thoreau