Quotes / All Myths Are True

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Comic Books

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

— Morpheus, The Sandman (1989) #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Comic Strips

Phoebe: So... goblins are real... and so are unicorns... also dragons, sphinxes, and pixies! What else is real?
Marigold: Avocados!
Phoebe: I already know about avocados.
Marigold: I am so proud!

— Phoebe and Her Unicorn, 10/29/2013

Fan Works

"Yes, all these creatures you hear only about in legend are real. Well, most. There are some absurd stories you come up with. But, inevitably, those that gain enough traction will lead to beings of their own..."

— Giratina, Intelligence Factor

Film — Live-Action

Janine: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston: Uh... if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

— Ghostbusters (1984)

Winston: Hey Ray, do you remember something in the Bible about the last days when the dead would rise from the grave?

Ray: I remember Revelations 7:12^note It's actually 6:12.... "And I looked, and he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became as black as sack cloth, and the moon became as blood."

Winston: "And the seas boiled and the skies fell."

Ray: Judgement Day.

Winston: Judgement Day.

Ray: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.

Winston: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is 'cause the dead have been rising from the grave?

(beat)

Ray: How about a little music?

Winston: Yeah...

— Ghostbusters (1984)

"Legend tells us one thing, history another. But every now and then we find something that belongs to both."

— Nick Fury, Thor

"Everything is true. God's an astronaut. Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live."

— Peloquin, Nightbreed

Literature

All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'.

— The Last Continent

Legends are an important source of true information. They always turn out to be far more accurate than HISTORY. Listen and attend carefully if anyone recounts you a legend. [...] But no matter how improbable the story, it will always turn out to be the exact truth and only by following it accurately can you hope to succeed in your QUEST. The Management will never allow anyone to tell you a Legend unless it is going to be important for you to know.

— The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

"Of course, even without my help, other forces would keep the cosmos chugging along. Many different belief systems powered the revolution of the planets and stars. Wolves would still chase Sol across the sky. Ra would continue his daily journey in his sun barque. Tonatiuh would keep running on his surplus blood from human sacrifices back in the Aztec days. And that other thing — science — would still generate gravity and quantum physics and whatever."

— Apollo, The Trials of Apollo

Valkyrie Cain: Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that doesn't actually exist?
Skulduggery Pleasant: Of course. The unicorn and the leprechaun would be the two main ones. The Loch Ness Monster isn't real, either, that's just someone called Bert.

— Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked

You: So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?
God: Neither. You’ll be reincarnated.
You: Ah. So the Hindus were right.
God: All religions are right in their own way.

— The Egg

Live-Action TV

Sam: So dragons are off the list.
Jody: I'm sorry— dragons? Those are a thing?
Sam: Yeah. Too many things are things.

— Supernatural

"He's the goblin king, yes the goblin king! He's not a myth, he's an actual thing!"

— The Goblin Song, "Doctor Who''

Music

Year after year, science finds explanations, scientific reasons behind all the legends. They think this proves history was not as myth has shown it, but in fact it proves that all the myths were true.

— Abney Park, "All the Myths Are True"

Our ancient nightmares, the ghostly legends,
And fiendish tales, all the myths are true.
Scientists have unearthed enormous skeletons
They think we've disproved that all the myths are true.

— Abney Park, "All the Myths Are True"

Tabletop Games

The Earth is flat. The Earth is a sphere. The Earth is a goddess, sleeping restlessly. The Earth is the center of the universe, and the Earth orbits the sun. All these are true.

— Mage: The Ascension — The Book of Worlds

Video Games

"Think about it, mate: legends! When has a legend ever not been true, huh? HUH?!"

— Marine, Sonic Rush Adventure

Play chess with the Boatman
Well, apparently he plays chess in paintings and folk-songs. Which are always accurate, of course.

— Fallen London

"Witches? As in the witches in Erebonian legend? First the Great Knight legend turns out to be based on a true story, now this? I feel like I've stepped into a fairy tale."

— Rean Schwarzer, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

"Okay, time the hell out. Are you saying this occult bullshit... ISN'T bullshit?!"

— Ash Carbide, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III

Webcomics

Don Gerb: Yes! The legends were true!
Sam: Damn it! Why are the legends always true?
Fuzzy: And disgusting! Always disgusting!

— Sam & Fuzzy #1075

"Dig this, right? There are countless stories about creatures that "don't exist." All over folklore and mythology you find dragons, sea serpents, ghosts... Nessie, mermaids, Bigfoot, the chupacabra... Did you think people just made those up for fun?"

— Jim, Skin Deep

"A good myth is always true, even if they're not exactly right."

— Murai, Digger

Peanut: What's Tarot doing around here, anyway?
Sabrina: Doing battle with the frost giant Aurgelmir.
Peanut: So, frost giants are a thing?
Sabrina: Everything is a thing, Peanut.

— Housepets!, Yggdrasil Root Beer, Actually

Web Original

Laura: As the world's greatest detective, Batman has also deduced, apropos of nothing, that the ancient Egyptian gods live in a secret chamber nearby, and demands that the scientists take him there... we learn that the Egyptian gods were actually products of ancient genetic experiments who sometimes rose to the world above through a fountain, and inspired religious worship.
David: Yet another obscure conspiracy theory?
Laura: Gotta catch 'em all, David.

— Laura Hudson and David Wolkin, "The Complete and Utter Insanity of Batman Odyssey"

Addendum 4: Folkloric Control Procedures As a reminder: staff assigned to SCP-953 are to follow all instructions for interacting with the subject, no matter how odd or arbitrary they may seem. Keep in mind that the people of Asia interacted with these beings for centuries before we came onto the scene: what we think of as fairy tales were their version of Special Containment Procedures.

— SCP Foundation on SCP-953

Web Video

The Nostalgia Critic: And because all religions are one hundred percent factual in the world of Indiana Jones, the stones do in fact have supernatural powers. It's weird; they even reference the coexistence of other gods in this movie.

Mola Ram: Then the Hebrew God will fall! And then the Christian one will be cast down and forgotten.

The Nostalgia Critic: These films should be called COEXIST: The Bumper Sticker◊: The Movie.

— The Nostalgia Critic's review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

"While normally you might think 'Well, Excalibur's just a legend', this is a comic book after all. Every legend and myth and story and religion are all true."

— Linkara during his review of The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga

Western Animation

King Arthur: All things are true... few things are accurate.
Macbeth: Aye, no bloody kidding.

— Gargoyles

Real Life

"Whenever you see a legend, you can be sure, if you go to the very bottom of things, that you will find history."

— Auguste Vallet de Viriville

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