Hidden Meaning Quotes

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

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

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.