Meaning Quote by Arundhati Roy

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

“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

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times…

— Carol P. Christ

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

— Freya Stark

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

— Jami Attenberg

“For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

“Even people who no longer "believe in God" or participate in the institutional structure of patriarchal religion still may not be free of the…

— Carol P. Christ

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

— Albert Camus

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

— Augusto Roa Bastos