Quotes About Symbolism

Failure to keep the street clean was symbolic of a moribund culture, a culture that had, despite loud and public exhortations to the contrary, lost its sense of pride, and its belief in itself.

Similarly clad women stood by the muddy well, pausing in their endless dunking of cats – a bemusing activity, its symbolism lost on the man as he hurried past.

this was how young boys made amends. Without words, with spare gestures that, in their rarity, acquired all the necessary significance.

The verge between sea and land marked the manifestation of the symbolic transition between the known and the unknown. Between life and death, spirit and mind, between an unlimited host of elements and forces contrary yet locked together. Lives were given to the seas, treasures were flung into their depths. And, upon the waters themselves, ships and their crews were dragged into the deep time and again.

Leaves skirled past, clattering like tiny bones.

Flowers are the hieroglyphics of angels. Loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending seems to us an expression of something that is buried deep within the tale and can be brought to light in that way and no other.

For some of us, there are few terms that induce narcosis quicker than "Christian allegory.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Growing up, I considered [my dad] to be an exemplar of fidelity. For instance, he didn't believe in removing his wedding ring, no matter what. Whenever he washed his hands, he would thoroughly scrub his right hand, then align his two ring fingers tip to tip, slide the ring from his left ring finger to his right, then scrub his left hand.

The symbolism of what they had done meant nothing in this world, this life, unless we ourselves empowered it with meaning.

Their language is that of dreams and memories.

Every building sported grinning gargoyles, simpering saints or representations of fantastic beasts.

There was a message to be translated, symbolism to be aligned and understood.

Servants, drawn to witness the procession, bowed as they passed as if they were blades of grass and the sight of the royal woman was a scythe passing over the field.

The serpent has the potential to be used for good or evil. It represents the creative force or building blocks of the universe, which is dualistic.

As trainees, I and my peers were taught not only how to enter the soulscape and wander it at will, but also to manipulate the information and symbolism we might find there.

Blue is the colour of strong passion and creativity, while green associated with the heart is seen as representative of generosity and kindness.

Purple is not only the 'royal colour', but is linked to spirituality, and intuition.

The crone's words hung on the air as if she'd scrawled them in light.

It was the sea that injured her. Why should its produce heal her?

As he ran, he stripped off his uniform, unaware of the cold. The Magravandian cloth and leather burned him like gall. It was a symbol of all that destroyed him.

Any priest could make a god for you, on a scrap of parchment with some spit and a smudge of black ink. He would name it for you and then it might act in your favor. If you ate the god, or rather the parchment bearing his name, you might have visions or be able smite an enemy with a thought. You could also banish demons who had procured temporary lodgings in your body.

If there were tears upon the face of the lamb, it was only fitting.