Metaphor Quotes

Discover 20 memorable quotes about metaphor. Perfect for memorization and inspiration.

No one can capture the flowing river.

Okina (Bamboo Cutter)(The Tale of The Princess Kaguya)
freedommetaphor

Sometimes we make castles from sand, knowing the tide will take them away.

Noah(Sand Castles)
metaphorimpermanencehope

A serpent's egg is white and pure. A bird's is speckled and soiled.

Hidetora(Ran)
metaphorpuritycorruption

They're more like dark pools.

Katarina(Scenes from a Marriage)
metaphoremotion

You can't break a horse by breaking its spirit.

Captain Keller(The Miracle Worker)
spiritmetaphor

Every child has a unique light, like stars on earth.

Nikumbh Sir(Like Stars on Earth)
individualitymetaphor

The wolf howls at the moon.

Narrator(Wolf Children)
naturemetaphor

Doors are important to me.

Temple Grandin(Temple Grandin)
metaphortransition

Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench.

John McClane(Die Hard)
metaphorresistance

I don't know much about horses, but I like to see them work.

Vivian Rutledge(The Big Sleep)
metaphorflirtation

We all built our prisons differently.

Noah(Sand Castles)
metaphortrauma

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Jane Eyre(Jane Eyre)
metaphorfreedom

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