Allegory Quotes

55 quotes by 46 authors

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the… — John Keats
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have… — Herman Melville
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure… — Tom Robbins
A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I… — Amos Oz
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an… — Friedrich Schiller
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is… — Manohla Dargis
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. — Stanley Kubrick
Everything for me becomes allegory — Charles Baudelaire
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned… — Carl Jung
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind. — Laurie Cabot
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth… — Henry Timrod
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory… — Stefan Kieszling

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