“Anyone who symbolizes himself a hater in anything deserves no love at all” — Muhammad Danish Rizwan Copy Share Image
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“A storm came chasing the sky away. And virgin sands Drank all the water of the evening woods, God's wind blew icicles… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
“Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King’s X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
