Top 14 Allegory Quotes - Quoted Daily

Everything for me becomes allegory

Charles Baudelaire

Allegory

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Manifestation, Allegory, Like And Dislike

1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, foreword.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

Stories, Unhappiness, Allegory

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Walter Benjamin

Ruins, Realms, Allegory

Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Brigid Doherty (2008). “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media”, p.180, Harvard University Press

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

John Keats

Men, Allegory

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 February 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 67

All perishable is but an allegory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Allegory

"Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act V, 1832.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

Michel Tournier

Function, Myth, Allegory

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

George MacDonald

May, Fairytale, Allegory

George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.426, Regent College Publishing