Cling Quote by Haruki Murakami

“But people need to cling to something. hey have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like Goethe said:…

— Haruki Murakami

“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what…

— Jenny Hubbard

“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

“not to cling to any thought—to let all thoughts flow by, detach ourselves from them, so allowing them to fade away into nothingness from…

— Terence Callery

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

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

— Roberto Bolano

“There are fewer metaphors around than people think.”

— Terry Pratchett

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they…

— Chandler Burr

Everything in life is a metaphor.

— Haruki Murakami

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he enjoys finding…

— John Gardner

“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living…

— Luke Davies