Symbols Quotes

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

I'm not a sex symbol.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.