Allegory Quote by Vanna Bonta Download Open image “Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.” — Vanna Bonta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Aspect Character Existence Human existence Humans Life
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Character is a word that seems to define almost all human activity and then some — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one… — Sada Thompson Copy Share Image
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is… — Arthur Trudeau Copy Share
“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings,… — Joseph Telushkin Copy Share Image
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings. — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress. — Vanna Bonta 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
