A myth is a story which can be retold by any number of people, and which nonetheless carries the particular message or meanings of its original producer.Roland Barthes
The function of myth is to empty reality: it is, literally, a ceaseless flowing out, a haemorrhage, or perhaps an evaporation...Roland Barthes
Myth is a type of speech chosen by history: it cannot possibly evolve from the 'nature' of things.Roland Barthes
Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message.Roland Barthes
Myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.Roland Barthes
The theoretical peculiarity of myth is that it abolishes the complexity of human acts.Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.Roland Barthes
Myth transforms history into nature.Roland Barthes
Myths are nothing more than the sum total of the language systems by which we communicate.Roland Barthes
The sign, in myth, is always in equilibrium; it belongs to a world both historical and natural.Roland Barthes