Quotes tagged ‘Symbolism’

(31 total)

“Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.”

“I got this at a very hopeless time in my life. Someone very special gave it to me back in Vietnam. It’s a Buddhist symbol of purpose. I was feeling very lost when I got that. But I put it on and I moved forward. And you know when I was wearing it? The day you were born. The moment you came out, my n…”

— Jas Waters, K.J. Steinberg, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com

“Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly. Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

— Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow.”

— Amy Lowell, poets.org

“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

“I have never felt the touch of falling snow, she said, but like love, I know it exists.”

— Michael Faudet, amazon.com

“Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”

— Iain Thomas, goodreads.com

“I am jealous of your tattoos and how long they will stay with you after I go.”

— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”

— Sierra Demulder, youtube.com

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”

— Pierce Brown, amazon.com

“True love is elusive, she said, sometimes I think it’s as rare as a red moon on a cloudless night.”

— Michael Faudet, twitter.com

“She reminded me of crisp spring mornings and sticky melted honey on toast. Both of which, I found utterly irresistible.”

— Michael Faudet, goodreads.com

“I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

— C. G. Jung, goodreads.com

“Under your skin the moon is alive.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.”

— Susanna Kaysen, amazon.com

“I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com