Allegory Quotes

Allegory Quote of the day

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.

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.

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

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

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.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

Everything for me becomes allegory

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.

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

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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

All perishable is but an allegory.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't like allegory.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

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.

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.

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.

Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

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

A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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