#metaphor

"In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious."

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown."

"The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects."

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

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

"She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world, otherwise known as night."

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."

"I had to hand it to him, leaving the empty glove lying on the bed was an apt metaphor for love. Two things I can say about my grandpa are that he is wise, and his left hand is probably cold."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"

"Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected."

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."

"Guilt is the toothache of the soul."