Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.

“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense…

— John Green

“Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old life to…

— Salman Rushdie

Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like…

— Sharon Gannon

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

— John Green

“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please just let…

— John Green

“when I've thought about him dying-which admittedly isn't that much-I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke.…

— John Green

“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “I…

— John Green

“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can't be…

— John Green

“It's a metaphor.”

— John Green

“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for…

— John Green

“Its a metaphor.”

— John Green

“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

— Umberto Eco

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

— Adrian Frutiger

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will…

— Seth Grahame-Smith