There is no symbol to symbolize the symbolism of our loved…

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world.…

— Starhawk

“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the ruins of…

— André Aciman

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that “0” is part of the symbolism…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms…

— Jessica Stern

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

— Stephen King

“Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.”

— Brandi L. Bates

“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word…

— Albert Camus

“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of…

— William Butler Yeats

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth