Intended Quote by Samuel Beckett

“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.”

— Aldous Huxley

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

— W. H. Auden

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

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

“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.”

— John Stuart Mill

All things are symbols.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.”

— Scott Sigler

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

— Tennessee Williams

“My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.”

— Adolph Gottlieb

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

“For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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