Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many… — Neil Gaiman
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in… — Paul Auster
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. — Pierre Bourdieu
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric,… — Naomi Wolf
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. — Siri Hustvedt
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to… — Michael J. Fox
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in… — John Green
You live for pretentious metaphors. — John Green
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the… — Elif Safak
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist… — Jacques Derrida
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
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as… — Terence McKenna
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in… — Carl Sagan
To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar. — Tom Robbins
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think… — Jane Yolen
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have… — Jay Asher
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Steig Larsson
Everything in life is a metaphor. — Haruki Murakami
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… — Annie Dillard

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