Quotes about Interpretation
Your life is always speaking to (for) you.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.
— Oprah Winfrey
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
— Oscar Wilde
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
— Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
— Oscar Wilde
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
— Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
— Oscar Wilde
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
— Oscar Wilde
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
— Confucius
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
— Cormac McCarthy
Where all is known, no narrative is possible.
— Cormac McCarthy