143 Quotes About Symbols

Symbols, or their absence, do not always mean what they seem to symbolize.Nevertheless, I suppose they always symbolize something.

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

the tall white windmills that came to her mind. How their skinny long arms all turned, but never together, except for just once in a while two of them would be turning the same way, their arms poised at the same place in the sky.

Symbolism scares the people who believe there's a valid substitute for emotion

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species" (176).

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty’s sake.

In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.

Little symbols of love are like molten lava, there's something even hotter below the surface.