Fall Quote by Edward Gorey

Everything in life is a metaphor.

— Haruki Murakami

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But…

— Max Black

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe…

— Nick Laird

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green