Behinds Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth… Another mode of meaning behind the obvious, or none.…

— Thomas Pynchon

“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…”

— Simone de Beauvoir

To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying…

— Jack Handey

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

— Julius Evola

...To which mystical land does an unfinished staircase lead?

— Pam Munoz Ryan

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

— Eric Hoffer

“When we were only several hundred-thousand years old, we built stone circles, water clocks. Later, someone forged an iron spring, set clockwork running, imagined…

— William Gibson

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

— Mason Cooley

It's very important to transcend places that hold us.

— Denzel Washington

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible…

— Albert Camus

Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

— John Milton