Quotes About Allegories

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

Walter Benjamin

#2. Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories - first carefully turning them inside out.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Manuel Puig

#4. good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

Joseph Addison

#6. Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

#7. Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

Neill Blomkamp

#8. 1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings

Gordon D. Fee

#9. I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into.

Marisa De Los Santos

#10. A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

#11. I don't like allegories.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost
Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

Lyn Hejinian

#13. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.

Jacques Derrida

#14. To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Henry Timrod

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

Michel Tournier

#17. Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.

Jason Krumbine

#19. There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Stanley Kubrick

#20. All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.

Ameen Rihani

#21. I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.

Philip Kitcher

#22. A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.

Laurie Cabot

#23. The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

James Fenimore Cooper

#24. They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#25. the Aleph-Null campaign.

Joe Haldeman

#26. She's mad but she's magic. There is no lie in her fire.

Karina Halle

#27. The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Nelson Mandela

#28. Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

Gretchen Rubin

#29. The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Hudson Taylor

#30. Fear not; believe only (Luke 8:50 KJV)."

John C. Smith