A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. — Socrates 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
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 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
We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Analogy and allegory always seem to be a much more expressive way of reflecting reality. I think Star Trek team have this… — Lydia Wilson 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
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
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami 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
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“The artist glanced at the inflexible image of king, commander, dame, and allegory, that stood around, on the best of which might… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess 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
Freemasonry is a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols. — Hemming Copy Share Image
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.” — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
“My God is a God of romance. He alludes greatly to this in the allegory of Him and the church as a… — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
