Symbolic Quotes

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

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.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

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

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

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

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

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

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

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