Quotes About Symbolism

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

In the land of the seeing, the blindfolded lady justice is Queen.

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

Metonimijska slika banalnog nacionalizma nije zastava kojom se svesno maše u trenucima raspaljenih strasti; to je zastava koja visi nezapaženo na javnoj zgradi.

A few peace activists, looking like peace activists all over the world, young, unassailable, and romantic, hand out roses. The message is old, the gesture likewise: the flower as a sign of good. There's a flaw in the symbolism, however, a permanent gash in this goodness: the flower withers. It lives for a moment. Then it withers in your hands.

That's justice, she said, nodding at the statue. She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.

más que un par de tatuajes.

Little things that are meaningless from a practical point of view may have great emotional meaning through their symbolism. Images and colors are often great motivating forces.

It was as though the hotel was more than just a hotel to him. "It was like the hotel was an expression of who he was, a symbol of what he believed in.

Their uselessness becomes their asset: they turn into totems and fragments of the lost worlds they came from.

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.

Gods are but metaphors. said Orland Frank. As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right.

Blood a necklace on me all my life.

Small gestures were enough for him. One bullet ended the war.

plucked the antlered hat of fire from his head.

Girls with poison necklaces to save themselves from torture. Just as women wear amulets which hold their rolled up fortunes transcribed on ola leaf.

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

Situations we might write off as a coincidence could actually be a late loved one trying to send us a sign.

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.