Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

22 quotes

Known primarily as an American mythologist, writer, and lecturer, Joseph Campbell also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. The range of their thinking — from Life to Experience — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 33 quotes from Joseph Campbell, each offering a different angle on Life, Experience, Religion, Marriage, and Love. One quote that captures their voice: "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

“Love is a friendship set to music.”

— Joseph Campbell

Friendship

All Quotes by Joseph Campbell

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.”

— Joseph Campbell

Computers

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

— Joseph Campbell

Experience

“Love is a friendship set to music.”

— Joseph Campbell

Friendship

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

— Joseph Campbell

God

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

— Joseph Campbell

Experience

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”

— Joseph Campbell

Money

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

— Joseph Campbell

Inspirational

“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”

— Joseph Campbell

Experience

“When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.”

— Joseph Campbell

Love

“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”

— Joseph Campbell

Marriage

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

— Joseph Campbell

Dreams

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life

“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

Best

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

— Joseph Campbell

Sad

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

Life