Metaphor For Life Quotes

“Minigolf,” she said with stone seriousness, “is a metaphor for life.”
I smiled and said, “Oh, really?”
“Yes. I mean, think about it….Do you take it seriously? Too seriously? Do you enjoy it? Do you keep careful score? Do you get upset when you lose? Do you cheat? And if you do cheat, how do you react when you’re busted? Are you sheepish? Sorry? Do you do it again?”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Look at you child, look what he's done to you," she said.

My knees had been tortured like this enough times in my life that I'd stopped thinking of it as out of the ordinary; it was just something you had to put up with from time to time, like the common cold. But suddenly the look on Rosaleen's face cut through all that. Look what he's done to you.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Your brain is you.
All the rest is plumbing and scaffolding.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor”
― Richie Norton

“Life is like music notes on a page: ups and downs with a beginning, end and dancing in-between.”
― Richie Norton

“Broken cities and bridges can be rebuilt, Lindy, but a building without power will eventually become derelict and fall into a state of decay. If left too long it will be earmarked for demolition.”
― Bianca Bowers, Cape of Storms

“Eons shaped us; in adversity, we stand eternal.”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora