Methaphor Quotes

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

“And, indeed, if ever that spirit which is entitled Romance—if ever she, the wan and the misty-winged Ashtophet of idolatrous Egypt, presided, as they tell, over marriages ill-omened, then most surely she presided over mine.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

“Looking up at the clear sky, its deep blue and brightness sent my thoughts to the Empyrean — the highest heaven, where I wondered at the difference between burning in Heaven and burning in Hell — the how the sacrificing of a daughter is just one of those things.”
― Glenn Hefley

“The ‘therapeutic window’. What a delicious term for the interruption of medical treatment! Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning. Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reasons for existing.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

“Judd kissed him like it was the punctuation mark at the end of a sentence - a purposeful pause in time and breath. Contemplative and thorough. It had been a really good kiss.”
― G.L. Carriger, The Enforcer Enigma