Symbols Quotes

I'm not really the sex symbol type.

— Kaitlin Olson

All art is at once surface and symbol.

— Oscar Wilde

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

— Lauren Oliver

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

— Alfred Korzybski

“No symbols where none intended”

— Samuel Beckett

I believe in status symbols.

— Brooks Stevens

Love is the symbol of eternity.

— Madame de Stael

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

— W. H. Auden

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

— Audre Lorde

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

— Mark Tobey

Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.

— Alexis Lichine

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane.

— Zendaya

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

— Anonymous

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

— Thomas Merton

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware…

— Albert Camus

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

— Arthur Miller

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

— Fletcher Knebel

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s…

— Ani DiFranco

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense,…

— Edmund White

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.…

— Suzanne Collins

Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and…

— Glen Duncan

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space…

— John Sexton

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…

— Steven Levenkron

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth……

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend…

— Albert Bandura

You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while…

— Cassandra Clare

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but…

— Wynn Bullock

The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why…

— Sue Monk Kidd

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in…

— John Keats

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that…

— Evelyn Waugh

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at…

— George Carlin