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Metaphor Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “You may feed the wolf as you will; he has always a hankering for the woods.”

Ivan Turgenev

Nature, Instinct, Freedom, Wildness, Metaphor

2. “A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.”

Mitch Hedberg

Burrito, Food, Beef, Metaphor, Humor

3. “A metaphor is like a simile.”

Steven Wright

Language, Metaphor, Simile, Comparison, Humor

4. “You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time...”

Steven Wright

Anxiety, Balance, Life, Metaphor, Experience

5. “I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”

Steven Wright

Travel, Cities, Metaphor, Discovery, Humor

6. “The raft is used to cross the river. It isn’t to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn’t the moon itself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom, Detachment, Understanding, Journey, Metaphor

7. “A stone is frozen music.”

Pythagoras

Nature, Music, Metaphor, Beauty, Structure

8. “Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.”

Plutarch

Grief, Anger, Sorrow, Emotion, Metaphor

9. “Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.”

Scott Adams

Life, Balance, Perception, Reality, Metaphor

10. “Every time you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Memory, Loss, Experience, Metaphor

11. “In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”

Leonard Cohen

Survival, Struggle, Appearance, Reality, Metaphor

12. “I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second-hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Devotion, Loss, Emotion, Metaphor

13. “There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine.”

Leonard Cohen

Loss, Emptiness, Absence, Metaphor, Desolation

14. “All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them.”

Leonard Cohen

Freedom, Destiny, Journey, Metaphor, Exploration

15. “It is difficult to strike a match against a crumbling stone.”

Anton Chekhov

Difficulty, Obstacles, Metaphor, Struggle, Persistence

16. “He read like a man afloat on the sea, surrounded by the wreckage of his ship, trying to save his life by desperately clutching first to one fragment and then another.”

Anton Chekhov

Reading, Struggle, Survival, Desperation, Metaphor