Quotes about Metaphor

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A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others — Criss Jami, Killosophy
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes Pinto
Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip — Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full — Ryan Lilly
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don — Michael Grant, Light
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our liv — Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be — Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I — Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what — George Lakoff
His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest of him, white as a b — Michael Chabon
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates
His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kin — Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. — Munia Khan
A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had give — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkne — Joss Whedon
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with th — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and — Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb
Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, — Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy