Character Quote by Tennessee Williams

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

— Albert Camus

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

— Sydney Sweeney

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

— Rudolph Valentino

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

“[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. [a symbol] also unlocks dimensions…

— Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily…

— Simone Weil

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

— Jacob Bronowski

“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments.…

— Ambrose Bierce

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

— Margot Asquith