Allegory Quotes

55 Allegory quotes by 46 unique authors

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all… — J.R.R. Tolkien
'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can… — Manuel Puig
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the… — Chris Terrio
I don't like allegory. — China Mieville
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing… — Andrew Solomon
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language… — A. S. Byatt
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is… — Erwin Schrodinger
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not… — Neill Blomkamp
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer… — Neill Blomkamp
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations... — J.R.R. Tolkien
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Leo Tolstoy
A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and… — Haruki Murakami
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away… — Milan Kundera
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a… — Tina Fey
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his… — Thomas Mann
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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