Allegory Quote by John Geddes A Familiar Rain

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…

— Haruki Murakami

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Anonymous

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Haruki Murakami

“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a…

— Haruki Murakami

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

— Nicholas Meyer

“You’re trying to help them… that’s a good thing. But you can’t always count on seeing their gratitude,” he said wanting to comfort her…

— Paul Alkazraji

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling…

— P. G. Wodehouse

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

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not…

— Thomas Jefferson

“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the…

— Éliphas Lévi

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

— George MacDonald

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

— Walter Benjamin

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

— Manuel Puig

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary…

— Donald E. Westlake