Symbolism Quote by Aldous Huxley

“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never…

— John Knowles

“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.”

— Oscar Wilde

“...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased…

— Victor Pelevin

“There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.”

— Joyce Maynard

“What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is…

— Scott Russell Sanders

“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.”

— Michael Lister

“When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.”

— Jacques Barzun

“I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed. This is history, and…

— Andrew Smith

“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.”

— Nicole Sobon

“The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.”

— Apostolos Doxiadis

“Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn’t so completely on my own.”

— Susan Jane Gilman