Joseph Campbell Quotes

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.

For me, romance is only 'true' when there are two sides to it. I think to have true romance you have to have the moments where you feel alone and you're crying and you feel like your heart's about to break... as well as the moments where you're floating through this orgasmic dream state.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

Edward,' she mumbled softly. She was dreaming of me. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. 'Stay,' she sighed. 'Don't go. Please... don't go

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.