Quotes About Symbolism

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.

Bob says that when you're alone, and you light a cigarette, and the cigarette is only half way lit that means someone is thinking about you. He also says that when you find a penny, it's only lucky if it's heads-up. He says the best thing to do is find a lucky penny when you're with someone and give the other person goodluck ".

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

It is probably best for us not to concentrate in too literal a fashion on the temporal structure of myth.

It was a Tuesday in February. Many of my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?

Hermes, the Psychopomp.

Thanatos, the grim, forbidding figure of Death.

oneiromancy

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time [Childhood].

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

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

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Plums deify.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Every blown leaf was a sign of impending decrepitude, every airborne bird a sign of hopes and dreams.