Quotes about Symbolism

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We're actors — we're the opposite of people! — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in c — Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade
We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are — Kilroy J. Oldster
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulat — Clifford Geertz
derelict. my voice cracked and yolk poured out. wind chimes rigid, no breeze, no song. my wings found hidden in your sui — Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; — Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete rea — Arthur Stanley Eddington, Science And The Unseen World
The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is w — Belsebuub, Return to Source: How Enlightenment is the Process of Creation in the Universe in Reverse
I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. " — Hilari Bell, Crown of Earth
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats — C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose p — C.G. Jung
(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the hum — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in — Christopher Hitchens
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the — Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile