Symbolic Quotes

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.