It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to…

Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and…

— Jonathan Capehart

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that…

— Marlon James

“Across the threshold’s sleep she entered in And found herself amid great figures of gods Conscious in stone and living without breath, Watching with…

— Sri Aurobindo

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the…

— Carl Jung

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

“her skilled use of her body, especially her eyes and hands, when communicating with people enabled millions sense she was a conduit between royalty,…

— Tony Walter

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

— Sir John Woodroffe

“Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ... Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the…

— Christina Baker Kline

“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history…

— Eli Of Kittim

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

— Frank X. Barron

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

— Michael Tsarion