Metaphor Quotes

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title." "Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through." "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes." "Love is not just a verb, it's you looking in the mirror" "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it" "I feel like we fell out of the lucky tree and hit every branch on the way down, ended up in a pool of cash and Sour Patch Kids." "If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens." "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." "Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust." "Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" "It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked" "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" "Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong." "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us" "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."