Best Metaphor Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.”

“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.”

“Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.”

“Where to start?”

“I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”

“You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”

“Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.”

“What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”

“There is no 'Happily ever after' because life is never static; it's in constant flux—a series of summits and silos—for one cannot appreciate light without enshrouding darkness.”

“When you try to catch the wind, your hand becomes a box. When you open your hand, the wind stays.”

“The cave of the mouth is where men's spirits shelter.”

“It is a law of Nature: a storm must follow tranquility to prove the growth of life.”

“He thought that humans are like sheep, powerless and helpless, whose reins are in the ruthless hands of life. This life, like a cold-hearted shepherd, drives man toward an endless journey against his desires and will.”

“The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

“And, the God created the earth,”

“The Architect’s Prologue: The Occupation of the Void by Stewart Stafford”

“In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.”

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

“The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”