Pain Quote by John Green Download Open image ““Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.”” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pain
“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it.… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot and itchy,… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
It hurts wanting the best for someone you love, even if they feel the best isn't you. That's real love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tryna hide this pain with these pain killers, she said the storms only will last a little while but shit it got me feeling… — Myself Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
