Quotes About Metaphor

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but—if that is the metaphor—you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but – if that is the metaphor – you are the sky.

To be healthy meant to be covered. Clothed. Literally and metaphorically.

Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

Running… "became a kind of metaphor for depression. To go on a run every day is to have a kind of battle with yourself. Just getting out on a cold February morning gives you a sense of achievement. But that voiceless debate you have with yourself - I want to stop! No, keep going! I can't, I can hardly breathe! There's only a mile to go! I just need to lie down! You can't! - is the debate of depression, but on a smaller and less serious scale.

Depressie is ook kleiner dan jij. Zij is altijd kleiner dan jij, zelfs al lijkt ze onmetelijk. Ze zit binnen in jou, niet andersom. Als een donkere wolk die overtrekt, maar - als dat de metafoor is- dan ben jij de lucht. Jij was er eerder. En een luchtloze wolk bestaat niet, maar een wolkeloze lucht wel.

Of course," Braithwhite added, "it didn't really happen that way. Biblical literalism is for the simple. But it's a useful parable.

a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

the crows are like a harrow to unbroken ground they turn it loose they give it air

As Susan Sontag pointedly observes in Illness as Metaphor, illnesses we don't understand are frequently viewed as manifestations of inner states. The less we understand about a disease or a symptom, the more we psychologize, and often stigmatize, it.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits

A guerra, disse o adivinho, é uma espécie de serpente que matamos sem pisar a cabeça. Um pequeno descuido e eis que ela ressurge no escondido do capinzal.

Tristeza de pássaro não inventou lágrima. Dizem: lágrima dos pássaros se guarda lá onde fica a chuva que nunca cai.

A primavera cabe dentro do grilo. Cigarras se alfabetizam de silêncios. No liso da parede, a osga se prepara para transparências, adquire a forma do nada. Enquanto o ramo vai transitando para camaleão.

As pálpebras são asas que nos restaram de um tempo anterior, quando fomos aves. E as pestanas são as sobreviventes plumas.

Being a safe place is a metaphor for transformation. It is designed to help us be intentional in seeking to be transformed so that we think, speak, and act more like Jesus, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The

Her father used to say The death of a horse is the life of a crow, and Ada had never really taken in the meaning of the phrase. But she knew it in her bones now.