Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It… — Amitav Ghosh
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.… — Angela Carter
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Some burns," Clary said. "Nothing that matters" "Everything that happens to you matters to me." "Well that certainly explains why you haven't called me back… — Cassandra Clare
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind.… — Stephen King
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I… — Martin Buber
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished.… — Jonathan Carroll
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a… — Ted Dekker
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young
Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist. — Richelle Mead
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I… — Anna Quindlen
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — Richard Rohr
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. — Rick Yancey
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not… — C.S. Lewis
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s… — Graeme Simsion
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. — Maggie Stiefvater
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. — Mary Catherine Bateson
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.… — Morton Feldman
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?" — Warren G. Bennis
Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation. — Gabrielle Roth

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