Top 93 Quotes About Allegory

#1. Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#2. it is an allegory of our times.

Arthur Miller

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#3. When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

Gael Garcia Bernal

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#4. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.

Seanan McGuire

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

Walter Benjamin

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#6. We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

Agnes Varda

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#7. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

William Golding

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#8. Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days
Carol's song
and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in your mouth and shut the hell up.

Joe Hill

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#9. In ancient Jewish tradition, as far back as we can tell, the Song of Songs was not interpreted as a love poem or as an allegory of the individual soul; it was interpreted as an allegory of God's spousal love for the people of Israel.

Brant Pitre

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#10. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#11. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

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#12. In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party

Donna Tartt

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#13. The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#14. At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say ...

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#15. I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

Lydia Davis

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#16. Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

Edmund White

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#17. Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

Tom Robbins

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

George MacDonald

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#19. An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

Manohla Dargis

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#20. Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus.

Dennis Lehane

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#21. Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Craig Ferguson

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#22. No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

Erwin Schrodinger

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#23. [Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Sarah Fielding

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

Michel Tournier

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#25. When they see beyond the sky,
When they know beyond the mind,
When they hear the song of the Burning Light;
Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,
Weave them together.
I shall come.

Rachel Starr Thomson

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#26. Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.

J.M. Coetzee

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#27. The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.

Katherine Howe

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#28. I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Manuel Puig

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#29. Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

John Kessel

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#30. Sounds like another allegory, interrupted the unknown voice, if you want to be blind, then blind you will be.

Jose Saramago

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#31. The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

Chris Terrio

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#32. There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,
No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,
Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

Douglas M. Laurent

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#33. 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

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#34. If you're looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue

Tina Fey

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#35. Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

C.S. Lewis

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#36. The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

Dennis Miller

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#37. Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and could not come by in any other way.

C.S. Lewis

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#38. Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Theodor W. Adorno

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#39. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Herman Melville

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#40. Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth ... and long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had ever thought about creating symbols to represent spiritual things ... there was a gospel.

Chandel L. White

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#41. Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Charles Baudelaire

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#42. I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

George A. Romero

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#43. But the modern critic not only permits a false practice: he absolutely prescribes false aims." A true allegory of the state of one's mind in a representative history," the poet is told, "is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of poetry.

Matthew Arnold

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#44. The allegory of blood.

Anonymous

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#45. 106. A GREAT CITADEL The most likely allegory is that the Citadel represents philosophy (that is, human reason without the light of God) surrounded by seven walls which represent the seven liberal arts,

Dante Alighieri

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#46. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

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#47. An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

Naguib Mahfouz

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#48. Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Jerome Strong

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#49. The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

Eli Of Kittim

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#50. The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#51. Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.

C.S. Lewis

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#52. Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#53. The Allegory of the Wolf Boy" ("At tennis and at tea/Upon the gentle lawn, he is not ours,/But plays us in a sad duplicity").

Oliver Sacks

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#54. Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.-
The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

John Bunyan

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#55. All is allegory ... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

J.M. Coetzee

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#56. For ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

Helen Waddell

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#57. I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals.

Margaret Atwood

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#58. A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

Eileen Atkins

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#59. I would like to write a symbolic allegory about a person who would not assert her will and communicate with others, but who always believed she was unaccepted, and apart.

Sylvia Plath

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#60. Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? ...

John Geddes

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#61. A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

John Keats

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#62. 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

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#63. V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.

David Lloyd

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#64. Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#65. It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

Thomas Mann

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#66. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#67. Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.

David Baldacci

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#68. No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.

C.S. Lewis

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#69. Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

Vanna Bonta

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#70. Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom ... a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.

Chuck Black

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#71. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Mark Twain

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#72. What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it be sexual abuse, physical abuse, or psychological abuse. That's what makes this such an incredibly bold show.

Rachael Taylor

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#73. He saw in Mr Chivery, with some astonishment, quite an Allegory of Silence,

Charles Dickens

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#74. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Augustine Of Hippo

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#75. Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

Stefan Kieszling

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#76. N equally basic passion of mine ab initio was for myth (not allegory!) and for fairy-story, and above all for heroic legend on the brink of fairy-tale and history, of which there is far too little in the world (accessible to me) for my appetite ...

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#77. The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We knew he would soon be able to illuminate paths in the darkness.

Laurie Green Westlake

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#78. If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

Baruch Spinoza

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#79. All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ...

Richard Flanagan

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#80. Everything for me becomes allegory.

Charles Baudelaire

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#81. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth

Leah Wilson

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#82. But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory
humorous, poignant, humane allegory
disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

Robertson Davies

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#83. A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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#84. All perishable is but an allegory.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#85. She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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#86. I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends ... well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through which I make sense of the world. Plus, it's a lot more entertaining.

Brea Nicole Bond

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#87. I don't like allegory.

China Mieville

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#88. I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Amos Oz

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#89. Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.

Steven Pinker

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#90. I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag.

Margaret Atwood

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#91. It's terrible to have to fear that your powers will activate at any given moment. Especially when you draw close to people ... and find that your only choice is to pull away. It's overwhelming when you find a time, a person, with which there's nothing to fear.

Zechariah Barrett

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#92. Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.

Carl H. Claudy

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#93. On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

John Bunyan

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