Quotes About Symbolism

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Man be my metaphor.

To have been accompanied on life's journey by the symbolic and monumental props of the gods has been a continuing and reassuring source of solitude. Such props quiet the inner voices that whisper about the inevitable end of life's drama.

People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate. In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

It's the opposite of love." Me. Talking without planning to. "Hmm? How so?" "People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

I wrote our names in the sand. Cadence, Mirren, Johnny, & Gat. Gat, Johnny, Mirren, & Cadence. That was the beginning of us.

The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.

Is there some esoteric meaning behind the titles?

One Egyptian word for sculptor was actually 'He-who-keeps-alive.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

She could not have believed that stones, a Loggia, a fountain, a palace tower, would have such significance. For a moment she understood the nature of ghosts.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices

For men roses are friends, and for women roses are beauty.

Realize that the plumpest berries are over the graves.

If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Where life is there is death, reasons the vulture, and where there's death there's hope.

Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor.

The word for woman is Gy (pronounced hard, as in Guy); it forms itself into Gy-ei for the plural, but the G becomes soft in the plural like Jy-ei. They have a proverb to the effect that this difference in pronunciation is symbolical, for that the female sex is soft in the concrete, but hard to deal with in the individual.

The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art.

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

The Oriole weds his mottled mate, The Lily weds the bee; Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth, Let me bind thee?