Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
A beard signifies lice, not brains.
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
Wrinkles don’t signify old age, they signify a lack of ironing skills or a dearth of hangers to hang clothes on.
The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imagina...
Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifier...
To the modernist, “myth,” like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one narrative among many; it is purely subjective, certainly signifying nothing of transcendent o...
A word is elegy to what it signifies.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
I wanted blood to signify life, not death.
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
