Hieroglyphics Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which…

— Vita Sackville-West

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm…

— Anonymous

“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all…

— Herman Melville

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty…

— John Evelyn

Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the…

— John Dee

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound…

— Augustus William Hare

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

— Thomas Pynchon

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the…

— Kenneth Clark

“This grimoire was written in the language of angels." "Shouldn't that be,like, harp music or chanting, and not hard-core hieroglyphics?”

— Rachel Hawkins

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

— Henry David Thoreau

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe