Dead horse Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A metaphor.”

— John Green

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“There were guns. And tigers. And horses, Ma, the horses were horrible. And basically, people wanted to kill us. Well, not us specifically, but—”

— Abigail Roux - Stars Stripes

“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like…

— Oscar Wilde

“There are fewer metaphors around than people think.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a…

— Norman Mailer

“They tried hard to take comfort from the fact that the boys hadn’t died in vain: they had been part of a magnificent struggle…

— M.L. Stedman

“He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Calvin Niles

“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down,…

— George Orwell

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are , and it…

— Neil Gaiman