Parable Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience…

— Edward Hirsch

“All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present…

— Guillermo del Toro

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are…

— James F. Cooper

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is.…

— William P. Young

“IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance,”

— Greg Grandin

“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when…

— Greg Epstein

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts…

— C. JoyBell C

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached…

— Anonymous