Hidden Meaning Sayings

#1. So far we have mainly been concerned with probing after the hidden meaning of dreams, the route we should take to discover it, and the means the dream-work has employed to hide it.

Sigmund Freud

#2. I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Pablo Picasso

#3. That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

Monique Roffey

#4. You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

#5. This the Master said; and he turned me around Himself, and not trusting my own hands, He covered my eyes with his own. For those of you who are educated, understand the hidden meaning Of the strange words that follow!

Dante Alighieri

#6. Miss u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
Want u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
OK, he sent back, and wondered stupidly if Ben would try and discern any hidden meaning in those two tiny letters.

Lisa Henry

#7. The hidden meaning of life . . . But the hidden meaning of life is that life has no hidden meaning.

Jose Saramago

#8. all the statements made about God that imply body have some hidden meaning and teach us what is above us by means of something familiar to ourselves, with the exception of any statement concerning the bodily sojourn of the God-Word.

John Damascene

#9. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

Hans Kung

#10. In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

David Hewson

#11. Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#12. The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.

Ben Maddow

#13. His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

#15. The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Joseph Joubert

#16. Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder.

Jeff VanderMeer

#17. Everything in the world has a hidden meaning ... Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#18. The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Paul Tillich

#19. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Deepak Chopra

#20. He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.

Kathleen Tessaro

#21. The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Joseph Conrad

#22. Things don't have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Alberto Caeiro

#23. Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning.

Leah Reader

#24. But the hidden meaning of life is that life has no hidden meaning. Abel knew Pessoa's poetry well.

Jose Saramago

#25. A private face behind every public mask, a hidden meaning peeking through whatever words they choose to share with you.

Simon R. Green

#26. In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

Honore De Balzac

#27. Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Frederic Chopin

#28. At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it."
"Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.

Jessica Sorensen

#29. I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

Muhammad Iqbal

#30. In the same way that you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life. A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings.

Penelope Ward

#31. When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.

James Hong

#32. Oh. It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning - none of which merely meant oh.

Nicki Elson

#33. Treasures are hidden and hard to find but if we could find a real treasure, it will shine our lives. In the similar way ultimate reality is hidden and hard to find but if we could find it, it will shine our lives.

Muditha Champika

#34. He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep.
"Beautiful," he whispered.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

Ruth Reichl

#36. Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.
pg 63

Michael Ben Zehabe

#37. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Paul Kurtz

#38. A terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

George Eliot

#39. Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

Libba Bray

#40. Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

Wendy Mass

#41. Both thought and the senses were fine things, behind both of them lay hidden the last meaning; it was worth while listening to them both, to play with both, neither to despise nor overrate either of them, but to listen intently to both voices.

Hermann Hesse

#42. Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them,

Hermann Hesse

#43. Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#44. When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.

Michael Meade

#45. Christ is the singular embodiment of truth, infinitely plural in meaning. Christ is the sum and hidden interior meaning of all other genuine revelations of God

Thomas C. Oden

#46. An evil vampire would not have such a black pit of pain and remorse hidden in his heart. He wouldn't know the meaning of remorse.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#47. We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

William Shakespeare

#48. The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it.

Liv-Christine Hoem

#49. I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

Nas

#50. The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#51. Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

Amit Ray

#52. You've been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that's where the future ones are headed. Remember that. All the days to come will vanish thus. What value or meaning can they contain? We are hoarders of dust.

Petronius Jablonski

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

Ernest Holmes

#54. This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Werner Erhard

#55. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.

William Hurrell Mallock

#56. Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

T.A. Barron

#57. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Hermann Hesse

#58. As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

#59. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. Those who pervert the meaning of Our (revealed) verses are not hidden from Us. Therefore, is the one who is thrown in the Fire better than the one who skirts it safely on the Day of Assembly? Do whatever you like, for He's watching everything you do. [40]

Anonymous

#61. Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.

K.J. Kilton

#62. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.

Sheridan Hay

#63. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

#64. Colors add meaning to life,
Some hidden facts they do imbibe.
One color could signify two things,
The onus lies on us,
As to how we take it.

Garima Jain

#65. Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.

Auliq Ice

#66. We uncovered a phenomenon we call "the immunity to change," a heretofore hidden dynamic that actively (and brilliantly) prevents us from changing because of its devotion to preserving our existing way of making meaning.

Robert Kegan

#67. Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

Dan Brown

#68. I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

Anthony Browne

#69. Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment. Only then will the church be like a city set on a hill which cannot be hidden. Only then will the fullest meaning of mission as the light of God be realized.

John Mark Terry

#70. To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

William Glasser

#71. His eyes sparkle with some kind of hidden knowledge as he lets me pass, like beautiful people know the meaning of the universe and are amused by us ordinary folks who have to bumble along in the dark.

L. H. Cosway

#72. When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

#73. Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.

Michael W. Ford

#74. whoever approaches his goal dances

Cormac McCarthy

#75. Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

Adam Zagajewski