Gone Quote by Neil Gaiman

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are , and it…

— Neil Gaiman

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

— George Orwell

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

— Zora Neale Hurston

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him…

— James Joyce

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Seeing metaphors in everything again.”

— Emilie Autumn

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

— Thomas B. Macaulay