Metaphor Quotes

• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Simple, Intellectual

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• Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Culture, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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• Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Editing, Space

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

  Travis Kalanick

  Fear, Entrepreneur, Hustle

  "‘Hustle Is The Antidote’ When Starting And Running A Business" by Jen Consalvo, tech.co. November 12, 2010.

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Life, People, Stopping

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• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

  Aristotle

  Masters

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

  Bernard Malamud

  Two, Sometimes, Fishes

  1975 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

  Pauli Murray

  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Faith, Prayer, Health

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Differences, Fields

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Writing, Genius

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Art, Different, Purpose

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• Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.

  Tim Storey

  Religious, Jesus, Entrepreneur

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• We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Prisoner

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• Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Art, Pain, Class

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• Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Past, Mind

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• People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Speak, Should

  "Literally speaking" by Simon Barrow, www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2007.

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• Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

  Robert Breault

  Night, Sky, Explanation

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

  Amy Purdy

  Life, Book, Stories

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2017

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Dangerous

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• Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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