818 Quotes About Metaphor

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.

It is only a metaphor—or the worst of dreams; yet there are metaphors which sit more powerfully in the brain than remembered events.

Let the snake that bit you bite me back. Let it bite me on the lip. Die with me.

You know how exit signs are bright and red and at times we’re blind to what’s behind? The doors are just subliminal metaphors that lead us through life. We never know, but we take a chance and open it.

She loves him so much. He is her native place.

Some oceans make sense. Most do not. Become the difference.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

Route 66 is a symbol for relishing life through-and-through via the senses; the Interstate represents missing out on life. You go from point A (birth) to point B (death) utterly oblivious to what’s happening in between.