Allegory Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of…

— William Butler Yeats

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not.

— Susan Spano

“In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“The things we achieve, whether empires or sentences, have (because they’ve been achieved) that fatal defect of real things: the fact they’re perishable.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Time is a perishable commodity.

— David Hume

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I…

— Luis Bunuel

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

“Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.”

— Kevin E. Phillips

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

— Paulette Goddard