Quotes About Symbolism

When my desire grows too fierce I wear my bed clothes inside out, dark as the night's rough husk.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

Some nights I saw these imbecile, lunatic prostitutes with the halo of Mary

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

Run slowly, horses of the night.

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

Por qué y cómo se construyó esta potente alegoría? ¿Qué hay detrás de El Álamo? ¿Quiénes reinventaron la batalla de El Á

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair. I wasn't prepared for that.

Chaska looked like he was fighting not to laugh. "Well, it sounds like you've tried everything." "I respect the snake's energy. I really do. They're a symbol of the Goddess, a symbol of rebirth, but most of my customers aren't as evolved as I am. It scares them. I don't want to call an exterminator, but it's hurting my bottom line.

Every kiss has its own meaning. As the early-twentieth-century French chanteuse Mistinguett said: "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

I repeat the names of the cardinal points in Russian: sever, north, desolate asperity of the Gulag; yug, south, a funnel that sucks you down toward the bottom; vostok, east, like the launch of a catapult; and zapad, west, the sound of falling head over heels.

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

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

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Rightly understood, a myth is an effort to tell truths that cannot be told with mere facts or known by the senses and the mind alone, truths that take form only in that integrative place called the heart.

Sex was the first dove.

Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

I don't wear a cross. As a child, I'd had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the instrument of Our Lord's death- I don't know why people think a torture device should be a symbol of Christ. Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that's my interpretation. Maybe other people think of religion and God differently than I do.

Thank goodness that's over," she said, taking the crown off and throwing it across the cave. It hit the wall and bounced off with a harsh clang. "You shouldn't treat your crown like that, Your Majesty," Cimorene said, retrieving the iron circlet. "Of course I should," Kazul said. "It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron instead of something soft and bendable. ...

If God has given all things their significance, and defined their bounds according to time, space, power, and number, and if He has appointed certain measurements to regulate things and times, biblical numbers must be symbolical, and be worthy of our study; and if a fit subject for study, the laws by which this symbolism of numbers is controlled, require to be ascertained.

She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.