Death Quote by 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

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

— Roberto Bolano

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our…

— John Green

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

— OMI

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

— John Green

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You…

— Joan Didion

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

— George Eliot

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Gregory Bateson

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

— Patti Davis

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

— Mark Twain