Quotes About Symbolism

Sixty-nine thirteen? Why do you have such a high number? Yours is the only house in sight." "I picked it myself," Patrick replied. "Six is the number of man. In order to get the second number, add three, the number of God. That represents the union of God and man in the Messiah. Finally, the thirteen

Now would all the waves were women, then I'd drown, and chassée with them evermore!

And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I'm a crow, especially when I stand a'top of this pine tree here. Caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! Ain't I a crow? And where's the scare-crow? There he stands; two bones stuck into a pair of old trowsers, and two more poked into the sleeves of an old jacket.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst

Herman Melville

Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality

Herman Melville

Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with

that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and often stand for each other. Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea, said Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale;

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality. He

the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.

Whatever the validity of that claim, there is no doubt that it is among the greatest American novels, rich in allegory and symbolism, capable of being appreciated on many different levels; a book of profound depths and sonorities that continue to resonate in the mind long after one has put it down.

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.

But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Astyages had a daughter called Mandane, and he dreamed one night that she urinated in such enormous quantities that it filled his city and swamped the whole of Asia.

At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

The motorcycle is obviously a sexual symbol. It's what's called a phallic locomotor symbol. It's an extension of one's body, a power between one's legs. -Dr. Bernard Diamond, University of California criminologist, 1965

Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all… That God was Man in Palestine And lives today in Bread and Wine.   (John Betjeman, Christman)

Caterpillars were the nearest approach, in real life, to Edgar Allan Poe.

those retrospectively blessed dozen years lasted from the chilly, fevered Central European night of November 9th, 1989 to that bright morning on the Eastern Seaboard of American of September 11th, 2001. One event symbolized the lifted threat of a worldwide nuclear holocaust, something which had been hanging over humanity for nearly forty years, and so ended an age of idiocy. The other ushered in a new one.