Symbol Quotes

The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.

That this country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope.

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V for Vendetta

Ivy Hammond

Hope

"We don't live in the real world anymore," she said. "We live in a world of symbols."

— As a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
— What symbol?
— Something elemental, something terrifying.

A world of symbols, not the real world.

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. I had realised this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and had forced my age to realise it afterwards.

God is everywhere. We just can't see him.

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The Man from Earth

Edith (art history professor)

God

We feel trapped by the names we’ve been given, as symbols of the intentions and expectations of others...

Byron was a symbolic figure, but his relations were to the passion of his age and its weariness of passion. Mine were to something more noble, more permanent, of more vital issue, of larger scope.

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Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

— If it wasn't for the mist, we could see the green light.
— What green light?
— The one that burns all night at the end of your dock.
Possibly...it had occurred to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever.

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The Great Gatsby (2013)