Quotes About Symbolism

The question is to know whether, as Sartre says, there are only humans and things or whether there is also the interworld, which we call history, symbolism, truth-to-be-made.

For the psychoanalyst, what is original is the structure of the body as an emblem of life.

The complete man, the man who does not dream, who can die well because he has lived well, and who can love his life because he envisages his death is, like the myth of the Androgyne, the symbol of what we lack.

In den Glasperlen des Märchens spiegelt sich die Welt.

poppy in wine.

Gdje su zlatne ptice ljudskih snova, preko kojih se to bezbrojnih mora i vrletnih planina do njih dolazi? Da li nam se ta duboka ?ežnja djetinje nerazumnosti posigurno javlja samo kao tužni znak izvezen na mahramama i na safijanskim koricama nepotrebnih knjiga?

Li?im na usamljenog samrtnika što okrvavljenim noktom urezuje u stijenu znak o sebi.

Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

There's something crazily beautiful about it, the banks of stacked illuminated signs- Sauna Hut, Sheer Elegance, Waterbeds USA, Chiropractic Here, Benihana, Ideal Uniform- gorse rolling from curbed island to curbed island, across the endless parking lots like suburban tumbleweed. Last week, I watched one roll over a lit cigarette, flaring brightly. If there'd been anything natural in its path, it might have started a fire.

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

I despise the way blackness in the English language, symbolizes death and negativity. Because I believe that the absorption of these connotations contributes to self-hate, I avoid them at all cost.

The image of Eve is not our image of woman.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

Tristeza de pássaro não inventou lágrima. Dizem: lágrima dos pássaros se guarda lá onde fica a chuva que nunca cai.

Essa lama que lhe chapeava as pernas, numa pasta cinzenta ao jeito dos elefantes. Parecia envergar África, besuntado dos seus fluidos mais viscerais.

Fue él quien, cuando yo estaba aún en estado artesanal, me concedió este nombre, mi nombre definitivo: Mariamar. —No solo te doy un nombre —dijo—. Te doy un barco entre mar y amar.

Unless we can trace our lineage to the original humans and find that we live where they lived, we are all international migrants. Furthermore we are all wanderers. We symbolically carry our homes on our backs, like turtles, snails, and crustaceans -- for the meaning and associations of home are always with us and affect our orientation in space and time, and how we negotiate our way through the world.

The first ear of corn, eaten like a typewriter, means summer to me—intense, but fleeting.

To drink like a Templar" became a cliché of the time.