Quotes About Symbolism

As these two officials took their places, Dorothy asked: Why is the colander the High Priest? He's the holiest thing we have in the kingdom, replied King Kleaver. Except me, said a sieve. I'm the whole thing when it comes to holes.

Indeed, the crown alone betokened majesty; in all else the, Scarecrow King was but a simple scarecrow—flimsy, awkward, and unsubstantial.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

When Jesus said "Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life" John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut. "Your dragon is pleased, " she said. "Indeed, he is.

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.