Metaphors Quotes

Life is a hot dog.

— Garvey From Touching Spirit Bear

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

“Know a man by his metaphors.”

— Anonymous

You live for pretentious metaphors.

— John Green

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

— Marcia Falk

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

— Paul de Man

Communication is the oil that lubricates the frictions of life.

— Anonymous

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

— Ray Bradbury

“Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good.”

— Haruki Murakami

“You are as curious as the sea, asking a poem of the shore.”

— Mostafa A. M. Elbehery

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”

— Paul Ricoeur

“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.”

— Terry Pratchett

“who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.”

— Richard K. Morgan

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

— H.L. Mencken

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium…

— James Gleick

Being Good to people is like being a Goal Keeper, No Matter how many goals you save, people will only remember the…

— Abhishek Tiwari

Love is like suitcase you may lose someone, but you've to pack it in the suitcase and move on.

— Jeremy Limn

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

— Michael Connelly

Life is like a refrigerator, you get what you want out of it and know what consequences may come if you are…

— Jennifer Amorelli

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take…

— Jenny Zhang

When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone, avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one.…

— Deb Caletti

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people…

— George Orwell

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really…

— Bob Peterson

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight…

— Sachin Tendulkar

“In order to think and infer it is necessary to assume beings: logic handles only formulas for what remains the same. That…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a…

— John Green

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Lights which have learned to shine in the deepest of darkness, are those lights that shine the strongest, the biggest, the hardest,…

— Anonymous

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have…

— Anonymous

[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as…

— Susan Sontag

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're…

— John Green

“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

— Jose Bernardo

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

— R. Kelly