Quotes About Metaphor

L'amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.

In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.

The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

when hell freezes over pigs fly and a cow jump over the moon amma like u

I hate to agree with C, but the stripper pole is definitely a metaphor for life: What goes up must eventually come down.

I bet having sex with her was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

You have a book that's also a face?

Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone." "It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

Sorry. Was it awful?" "Being a rat? No. First it was disorienting. I was suddenly at ankle-level with everyone. I thought I'd drunk a shrinking potion, but I couldn't figure out why I had this urge to chew used gum wrappers.

Some burns," Clary said. "Nothing that matters" "Everything that happens to you matters to me." "Well that certainly explains why you haven't called me back once. And the last time I saw you, you ran away without telling me why. It's like dating a ghost." Jace's mouth quirked up slightly at the side. "Not exactly. Isabelle actually dated a ghost. She could tell you--" "No," Clary said. "It was a metaphor. And you know exactly what I mean.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

The ego—one's sense of self—is an abstract concept; it's hard to define it concretely. Picture it as a house built brick by brick. It protects you from the stresses of the outside world, providing a metaphorical home to shelter in—a safe place.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.