Hidden Meaning Quotes

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand...... There is a blow behind the blow.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“whoever approaches his goal dances”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.”
― David Hewson, Macbeth

“I swear to you that I heard the story of the lion-sorcerer just before leaving for the war. This story, like all interesting stories, is full of clever innuendo. Whoever tells a well-known story like the one about the lion-sorcerer and the fickle princess might always be hiding another story beneath it. To be seen, the story hidden beneath the well-known story has to peak out a little bit. If the hidden story hides too well beneath the well-known story, it stays invisible. The hidden story has to be there without being there, it has to let itself be guessed at, the way a tight saffron-yellow dress lets the beautiful figure of a young girl be guessed at. It has to be transparent. When it’s understood by those for whom it is intended, the story hidden beneath the well-known story can change the course of their lives, can push them to transform a diffuse desire into a concrete act. It can heal them from the sickness of hesitation, no matter the expectations of an ill-intentioned storyteller.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.”
― William Glasser M.D.

“It’s okay if you can’t make sense of that. I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t grasp it, either. The most vital things we hide even from ourselves.”
― Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles

“Reid, reid agane, this volume, mair than twys:
Considir quhat hyd sentence tharin lys.”
― Gawin Douglas, The Aeneid, Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII

“You can't walk on the yellow brick road without having your red shoes on. The color represents what I've been forgiven of and what I'm washed in but keeps my robe white as snow.
See it started in '13 and I would call it a well-knitted finding of marketing and money handling, pass-porting through the port as I ass through the deceit that creates defeat, a price tag on each heartbeat. But I desire to be different for my desiring in life is in contrast to the cattle of life.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“Call it esoteric, it's an enlightenment I the Word of God of what's going on in the world of government. We all want to be equal to one another, not better nor worst for equity compels performance. But to have that one must remember "Diligence is the responsibility of the party who stands to lose by lack thereof". So believe in God and your lack becomes a cup of overflowing abundance.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“A great quote can illuminate the infrastructure of life.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Your hidden enemies better know your hidden strength”
― J. Ruby

“Have you come across a phenomenon which we might call “parallel conversations” before? What do I mean by that? I mean where one thing can be said at a rational and everyday level, and yet something else, some other message or signal, modulates that basic carrier wave. ... [S]omeone might use a metaphor or a common saying (either knowingly or unconsciously) such as “There's no point in mending fences while the wind s up”, which might rationally fit in with a physical task that they were carrying out at home over the weekend, and yet might convey other meanings to whomever they were talking to.”
― H.M. Forester, Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul

“You want to belong - connect. You want to win - fight. You want to die - sleep. You want to fly, learn to cry.”
― LZ

“At the heart of all Witchcraft is the pursuit of knowledge. We seek to better understand the processes of nature, to draw back the veil and peer into the hidden inner mechanisms by which the universe is governed and kept in motion.”
― Storm Faerywolf, Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft

“I thought that directness spoke for itself, but hadn’t realized that the English like their ritual and distrust plain speaking as somehow mendacious. Everything has a hidden meaning, does it not? And the more direct the speech, the more carefully hidden the true meaning must be, the more effort must be expended to understand what is really being said.”
― Iain Pears, [The Portrait] (By: Iain Pears) [published: July, 2005]