Archetypal Symbols Quotes & Sayings

I think the odds of her killing me with sex are good, but what a way to go. At least I'll die happy. — Georgia Cates

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb. — Tom Lehrer

As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends - or, at least, goblins I know well, and like. — J.K. Rowling

Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers. — Christopher McDowell

My Book and Heart Shall never part. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery. — Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. — John Dryden

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! — Heloise D'Argenteuil

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect. — Randall Robinson

As the Hindu gods are "immortal" only in a very particular sense - for they are born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details ... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beings by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human being, however "archetypal" his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces. — Neil Gaiman

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature. — Sue Townsend