Ancient Tales Quotes

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.