Comfortable Quote by Haruki Murakami

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to…

— Ray Bradbury

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations…

— Manly Hall

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

— Stephen King

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older…

— John Schlesinger

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

— George Edward Woodberry

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth