Meanings Quote by Samuel Beckett Download Open image ““No symbols where none intended”” — Samuel Beckett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meanings Symbolism Symbols
“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
You can't change the hand your dealt but you can change the way you play the game — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Have you ever given anyone a red rose?" Grant asked. I looked at him as if he was trying to force-feed me foxglove. "Moss… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
