50 Deep Metaphor Quotes And Sayings About Life

The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates

Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein.

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
– Cesare Pavese

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
– Wallace Stevens

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
– Fernando Pessoa

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.
– Mary Ruefle

The metaphor is an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
– Gaston Bachelard

The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.
– G.R. Gopinath

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
– Richard Rohr

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
– Chuck Palahniuk

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
– Matthew Woodring Stover

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
– Gilbert K Chesterton

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
– George Lakoff

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
– James Geary

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
– Joseph Campbell

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.
– Scott Adams

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor.
– Gerald Edelman

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
– Rachel Hartman

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
– Haruki Murakami

Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
– William Carlos Williams

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.
– Wendy Mass

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
– Orson Scott Card

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
– Twyla Tharp

A single metaphor can give birth to love.
– Milan Kundera

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
– George Lakoff

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
– Wallace Stevens

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
– Barry Lyga

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
– James Geary

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
– Samuel Johnson

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
– Paul de Man

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
– James Geary

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
– Roberto Bolaño

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
– George Eliot

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.
– Robert Breault

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
– Robert McKee

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
– Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
– James Geary

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us poets and non-poets alike to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
– James Geary

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
– Richard Whately

Metaphor is embodied in language.
– Dennis Potter

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
– Jacob Bronowski

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
– Georg C Lichtenberg

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
– Pierre Bourdieu

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
– Antisthenes Pinto

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
– Jose Bernardo

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
– Milan Kundera

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
– Robin Morgan

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
– Aristotle

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
– James Russell Lowell

The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset