"Înainte vreme, un scriitor care voia să spună ceva despre viaţă sau despre moarte scria sus pe carte "Despre viaţă" sau "Despre moarte" şi începea s… - Mircea Eliade

I se păruse că fusese păcălit, că cineva îşi bătuse joc de el lăsându-l să creadă că tinereţea nu e totuna cu numărul anilor, şi că poţi să-ţi numeri anii, unul după altul, ca şi cum ar fi vorba de altceva decât de propria ta viaţă care se scurge...

"As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

The hearer of myth, regardless of his level of culture, when he is listening to a myth, forgets, as it were, his particular situation and is projected into another world, into another universe which is no longer his poor little universe of every day. . . . The myths are true because they are sacred, because they tell him about sacred beings and events. Consequently, in reciting or listening to a myth, one resumes contact with the sacred and with reality, and in so doing one transcends the profane condition, the "historical situation." In other words one goes beyond the temporal condition and the dull self-sufficiency which is the lot of every human being simply because every human being is "ignorant" — in the sense that he is identifying himself, and Reality, with his own particular situation. And ignorance is, first of all, this false identification of Reality with what each one of us appears to be or to possess.