Quotes About Symbolism

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

Cynthia didn't mind Confederate flags. She'd like to see a law that required every white trash hillbilly to have one tattooed on his or her forehead. You would see them coming that way.

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by im- posing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

The therapist her parents brought her to see liked Tess to do a lot of drawings. . . . He said, "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she'd told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.

He says the scarecrows—" —weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn.

of hair around a slender finger.

He has done this the way the fabled butterfly does it, as its wing-flapping sets off revolution.

There's some language of flowers stuff that says what color roses mean what things. So I got you all the colors of roses they had because your everything….

There is an elaborate North African mezuzah case that dates to sometime in the 1700s, and by the nineteenth century Jews in Russia, eastern Europe, and Morocco were shaping mezuzah cases out of silver, creating miniature arks and fish and other pretty symbols in which to house their slices of parchment.

Only Christmas is over, and there were no angels.

The stone that once held the Magellan escutcheon met with a special fate: It was covered with excrement.

These men are accustomed to bore holes in their lips and cheeks, and in these holes they place bones and stones;

Allâh as the Beloved in Sûfî literature, the ma'shûq, is always depicted with female iconography.

Tales and images transcend duality.

It is a great mistake to say that the thorn does not have anything to do with the rose, or that the thorn is the absence of the rose. The thorn is as much rose bush as the rose is. The thorn has as much validity as the rose. Let this Rose Bush be the symbol of the Heart of Real Spirituality. We are not asking you to like the thorn, but we are asking you to see it as an expression of Allah.

The Ophite Christians believed that ingesting the living substances of reproduction was considered more 'spiritual' than ingesting the dead body of the god, even in the transmuted form of bread and wine, though the color symbolism was the same.

Bees are a recurring symbol of the Merovingians and the humming or buzzing sound of bees is likened to supersensible "sounds" experienced by many Sufis as they enter spirit realms.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.

She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way out, or was she the cage?

She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.