Book Quote by Martin Gardner

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale…

— Martin Gardner

“How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.”

— Jorge Volpi

“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

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.”

— Terry Pratchett

“None of this seems real,” said Alice. “I’m like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made sense. You…

— Liane Moriarty

Everything in life is a metaphor.

— Haruki Murakami

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

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

— Gregory Bateson

... 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

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey