Symbolism Quotes

What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by...

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

It symbolizes a spear, and in this sorry world the symbol is the thing.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I neve...

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc ...

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of...

Not much to say except to warn you not to get too serious about all this, if you want to become a wr...

(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like ...

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire...

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integ...

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To inte...

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bo...

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We...

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, f...

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials ...

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting mood...

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, o...

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...

When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, ...

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And pa...

If in the place of God we write “Reality”, “Nature”, “Unknowable”, or “Zero”, it matters not one whi...

Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone abo...

Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...

Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England win...

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the hum...

When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’r...