Quotes About Symbolism

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the 'Coronation of Esther' which hung in our church,

As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

And when they saw the somewhat extravagant tattoo I have on my back — a half of a SEAL Trident (Morgan has the other half) — they damn near fainted.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

Pour qui est né après la seconde guerre mondiale, ces événements vieux d'un demi-siècle sont comme des histoires de loups-garous. Cependant le message par lequel s'achève le compte-rendu de ces événements, et qui ne devait être que symbolique, est devenu d'actualité. (postface, 1993)

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

The shop for fuller figures could be seen through broad, green leaves, its windows full, not of dresses, but fat zeros, pot-bellied legless sixes and bosomy eights, and threes like pregnant, primitive goddesses. In the teashop the chairs were being stood on top of the tables and made a forest of their own, sprouting upwards in fountains of coloured leaves.

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.

Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.

We don't like flowers that donot wilt; they must die, and nineshe-camel hairs aid memory.

No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles ». No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was. Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- tinted buttons, dahlias, sea-urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foam of polished sculpture flowers - at ease and tall. The king is dead.

The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in which an interpretation will not have a destructive effect. One should keep to what is possible and infer at the same time that there is a lot more to it so that there is room for growth.