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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams

Guilt is the toothache of the soul. — Tommy Cotton

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. — Deborah Copaken

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

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. — Khaled Hosseini

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction. — Lois Lowry

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. — Robert Breault

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life. — Rene Magritte

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. — Frank Grillo

Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself. — Os Guinness

Ask yourself ... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be? — Denise Linn

Life's a climb. But the view is great. — Miley Cyrus

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. — John Green

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol. — Lorna Dee Cervantes

Sports are a metaphor for life. — Ronda Rousey

the road is life — Jack Kerouac

It's so much easier to shut the refrigerator door, which is totally a metaphor, I realize, for my life — Matthew Quick

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. — Jeanette Winterson

Life is like a B-picture script. — Kirk Douglas

The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave. — Adam Foulds

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye. — T.F. Hodge

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint. — David Rakoff

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life. — Olivia Sudjic

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

It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter. — Emily Giffin

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit. — Bryant A. Loney

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher

Everything in life is a metaphor. — Haruki Murakami

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. — Angela Ruggiero

Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake. — David James Duncan

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors. — Gustave Flaubert

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for hope. — John Green

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image. — Anna Deavere Smith

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. — Yann Martel

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? — Chuck Palahniuk

Life is mostly metaphor. — Robert B. Parker

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert — Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins

I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor. — William Boyd

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life. — Norman Mailer

There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it. — Lauren Oliver

Where death follows, there's life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you'll eventually find the light. — Lee Argus

To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And — Steven Pinker

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. — Munia Khan

Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason. — Nenia Campbell

He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was. — Haruki Murakami

Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice. — Mahmoud Darwish

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place. — Matt Simpson

There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans. — Bryant A. Loney

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk. — Tift Merritt

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs. — Debasish Mridha