Top 1200 Metaphors Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
We use metaphors to express our own truths.
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.
Dead metaphors make strong idols.
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
