“Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?”
Douglas MacArthur
“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Arundhati Roy
“Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.”
Gary Busey
“I loved that image. It's a symbolic representation of the deepest emotional aspects of their relationship.”
Simon Doonan
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde
“Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.”
Mark Twain
