Personal Myth Quotes

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

One of the myths is that I don't dress well. I dress very well—I just don't look so good.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!