Metaphor Quotes
Mother Teresa
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
2769Matt Groening
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
1745 Jim Butcher
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
2676 Charlotte Eriksson
I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.
4835 Northrop Frye
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.
1222 Brandi L. Bates
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
4349 Mark Nepo
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
2449 Neil Postman
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
4546 H.L. Mencken
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
3708 Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
3258 Truman Capote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
2833 E.M. Forster
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
4459 Sarah Dessen
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away.
I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.
3580 Neil Gaiman
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
2814 Aniekee Tochukwu
Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.
1756 Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
2101 Patrick Jones
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
2660 Nenia Campbell
Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
2111 Laini Taylor
He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.
1448 Lee Argus
Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.
3265 Jennifer Donnelly
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
1391 Siri Hustvedt
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
3429 Osip Mandelstam
Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.
3619 Bob Mitchley
unless you're the lead dog the view never changes...
mercy out does justice every time:
always find your way back home/
4625 Antonio R. Damasio
...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
4559 Thomm Quackenbush
My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
3431 Fred Van Lente
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!
4878 Martin Luther
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
2073 Lisa Genova
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.
1811 Annie Dillard
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
4590 Brian Greene
If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.
1298 Brian Greene
…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
4685 Mohlalefi J Motsima
wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.
2436 Raymond Chandler
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
1144 Robert McKee
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
4816 Lauren Oliver
The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...
2214 Ryan Lilly
The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.
1586 Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.
2681 William Shakespeare
When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,
And these, who, often drowned, could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
4351 Haruki Murakami
I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.
1258 Keith Hollihan
It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.
4446 Geoffrey Wood
The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.
1977 Nenia Campbell
Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
2380 Michael Chabon
His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest of him, white as a boy's - perhaps over time one's genitals emerge from the pots and bubbling vats of love permanently stained, like the hands of a wool dyer.
4386 Nenia Campbell
Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.
4486 Marisha Pessl
She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.
4284 Sol Luckman
The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.
4974 Peter Shaffer
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
2746 Robert Hughes
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
4554 Andy Biersack
When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.
1910 Richard Kadrey
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.
3016 Yann Martel
Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.
3512 Rick Yancey
I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.
1860 Mackenzie Herbert
But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.
1271 Adam Foulds
The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.
2394 Maddy Kobar
Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom
4447 Vera Nazarian
If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
2756 Richard Powers
And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that fall from the womb, still wet with afterbirth but already running.
3877 Kelby Losack
Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.
4483 Bryant A. Loney
This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.
3026 Dorothea Rosa Herliany
putriku menaiki lidah petir.
membangunkan setiap raksasa malas.
mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup.
menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran.
2068 Antonia Michaelis
That cloak of love you were wearing - he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?
2921 Neil Gaiman
It symbolizes a spear, and in this sorry world the symbol is the thing.
3130 Antisthenes Pinto
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
1196 Julian Jaynes
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects.
1947 Catherine Lacey
I tried to pick the burned ones from the bowl but I didn't get many of them because I didn't make much of an effort, and even though I was taking the burned ones out because they weren't edible, I ate them because, at the moment, I thought it would be better if everyone learned to consume their own mistakes.
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