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
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier 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
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson 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
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
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
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
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than… — Stefan Kieszling 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
“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?” — Eli Of Kittim 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
“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
We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight… — Chuck Black 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. — Socrates Copy Share Image
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
