Allegory Quote by Leah Wilson Download Open image ““a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth”” — Leah Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Lies Truth Truths
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The only truth that matters, is the truth within. For without that truth can be made a lie.” — Sarah Pussell Copy Share Image
“If a thing is absolutely true, how can it not also be a lie? An absolute must contain its opposite. ” — Charlotte Painter Copy Share Image
“Strange things are said to have happened in this world some are said to be happening still but half of them, if… — James P. Blaylock Copy Share Image
“your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving” — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
“like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.” — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference… — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.” — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the remains and evidences of its previous life. So also Moses saw to it that all those who had known Egypt and her mysteries should end their life in the desert; at Ephesus St Paul burnt all… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install… — Susan Sontag Copy Share
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is of the same quality as all the rest—hence all of us are equal in the absolute sense, the essence, in the quality of our energy. However, some of the lamps are “turned down” and having less… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share