Alive Quote by John Green

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass__our roots…

— John Green

“when I've thought about him dying-which admittedly isn't that much-I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke.…

— John Green

“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at…

— John Green

“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that all strings…

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— Roberto Bolano

When you lose someone, you go through a lot of metaphors. Our vocabulary falters in the face of death.

— Mary Katharine Ham

There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh clarity where…

— John Hodgman

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

— Gregory Bateson

“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the graveyard into…

— David Kord Murray

... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...

— George Eliot

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp