Quotes About Symbolism

Ouroboros in which a serpent swallows its own tail. This represents the perpetual, cyclic renewal of repeating cycles.

Human marriage has always been intended by God to serve as a prophetic whisper of the eternal marriage. Every real marriage in the world today manages that statement to some degree, however weakly, because that is what marriage is. Very few realities in our lives bear such a sacred meaning and deserve such special consideration.

The jury which informed Potter he would be drawn and quartered was not an undisciplined mob but an official body representing the interests of the Revolutionary government. Humiliation with barnyard symbolism—goose feathers or hog's dung—had regressed to archaic forms of torture.

What the hell, it always rains in sad love stories. And in happy ones too. Must be a reason, though perhaps not necessarily metaphysical.

He looks to me like he's turning into a... into a..." "Into a what?" "Into a giant bat!

It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

The '65 Impala is pretty much me as a car.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

People were taking off $5,000 gold chains to wear little $10 leather medallions that represented peace because that's what Public Enemy was about.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

Everybody loves superheroes, and so to be associated with a superhero forever is just kind of like, that's where the goalposts are. That's kind of, 'Bam, you're immortalized!'

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

I'm very superstitious, and I think it's bad luck. You don't have to show your love by tattooing it.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Our world is eagerly awaiting the posthumous publication of his works, which are rumored to contain an a priori proof of God's existence—a situation which has prompted me to flirt with the idea of a symbolism-heavy play entitled Waiting for Gödel.)

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.