Quotes About Symbolism

There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

tarnished keys, gilded keys, keys

The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries

Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.

In classical psychoanalytic theory hysterical symptoms refer to dysfunction when a body part or a sense organ takes on an unconscious symbolic meaning. For example, a patient's eyes or legs might be equated unconsciously with his or her sexual organs; in the case of massive inhibition of adult sexuality, an eye or a leg may appear not to function. There is no physiological damage; the affected organ is only hysterically paralyzed.

Pocas veces, por desgracia, una mujer fue tan decisiva; no es de extrañar, pues, que [Cleopatra VII Philopátor], proclamada reencarnación viviente de la diosa Isis, se ganara a pulso su entrada majestuosa en el cielo de los faraones

rojo era símbolo de libertad, caridad y salud, y el amarillo de justicia, virtud y clemencia.

Fui sobre agua edificada, mis muros de fuego son

prehistoric humans who discovered death reacted by celebrating life. Through self-adornment and embellishment, they affirmed their existence, defying the final tragedy to come. They employed symbolism to express their immense joy at being alive (still).

Jesucristo fue el Cordero de Dios, pero también el León de Judá; y de sus rugidos y zarpazos están llenos los Evangelios

while amulets bearing the image of Medusa protect against harmful magic spells.

Cleopatra identified herself as an avatar of love goddess Aphrodite.

The most famous sigil is the Seal of Solomon, also commonly called a Jewish star, which is a hexagram, two interlocking triangles, representing the perfect union of the male and female principles.

L'accent circonflexe est l'hirondelle de l'écriture.

The incessant marching and beating of drums, the sweeping searchlights, flaming torches, and thousands upon thousands of gigantic red and black swastikas flapping in the breeze, were all skillfully deployed to pay homage to the one supreme chieftain, the demi-god pre-ordained to lead his tribe out of darkness to its rightful place in the sun.

Las manos reflejaban el alma de las mujeres y su condición social.

As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering...

What is there not to like about cupids?" "You don't find them rather dangerous?" "Chubby little babies?" "Carrying deadly weapons.

Carter Hall is a cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon from 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons.'

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

Film has its own innate poetry.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.