It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind. — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth...and long before doctrines and denominations,… — Chandel L. White Copy Share Image
“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“A Mixed-breed Apple" A little mixed-breed apple, half red, half yellow, tells this story. A lover and beloved get separated. Their being… — Rumi Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
