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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell quotes about life

American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. Joseph Campbell
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. Joseph Campbell
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life. Joseph Campbell
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to..."
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "You must give up the life you planned in order to have the..."
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward. Joseph Campbell
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. Joseph Campbell
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy... Joseph Campbell
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and... Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can..."
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Joseph Campbell
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and..."
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. Joseph Campbell
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine? a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of..."
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell

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