#mythology

You got secrets you better keep Take flight before she cuts you deep - Sam's song ↗

— Helen Boswell

#impiorum #mythology #songs-lyrics #urban-fantasy #wicked

I said hello to the poodle. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology #pets #humor

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? ↗

— Jake Jesser

#crucifixion #death #mythology #perspective #religion

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death. ↗

— Walter Burkert

#hades #life #mythology #persephone #underworld

The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#mythology-fiction #paranormal-romance #romance-love #sea-stories #love

…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

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#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

But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none. ↗

— Virgil

#greek #myth #mythology #the-aeneid #trojan