122 Quotes About Metaphors

They were a paper chain of distinguished members of society, and when one caught fire, they either severed themselves or they all went up in smoke.

I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the being who claimed Eldaloth's name faded and disintegrated with all the suffering life behind him. A poisonous dread seeped as deep into his soul as the exultant honor and pride he had felt just minutes before. The vast gap between the two emotions a crater into which his very soul plummeted in free-fall.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

The thing about growth is that it sounds so good. It’s a powerful metaphor that’s rooted deeply in our understanding of natural processes: children grow, crops grow… and so too the economy should grow. But this framing plays on a false analogy. The natural process of growth is always finite.

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

They had not just slipped into that frigid pool, they lived there now. They didn't want a ladder.

If you have been battling the cannon fire, gunfire won't bother you.