"The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water."

Metaphor, Fish, Release, Nature, Choice

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Metaphor, Body, Mind, Energy, Disease

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Life, Growth, Struggle

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Metaphor, Rest, Support, Relationship

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Metaphor, Water, Change, Vanishing

"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

Stephen King, American Author

Metaphor, Obsession, Sight, Truth, Fantasy

"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Light, Darkness, Press, Existence

"A sheep in wolves clothing!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Sheep, Wolves, Clothing, Deception

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Metaphor, Humanity, Identity, Emotion

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

Marie Lu, American Author

Metaphor, Darkness, Power, Fear, Control

"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Metaphor, Life, Observation, Flow, Existence

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"Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly."

Society

"We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human."

Psychology

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

Intelligence

"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."

Peace

"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself."

Solitude

"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Fiction

"It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable."

Emotion

"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"

Metaphysics

"These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important."

Reflection

"I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose."

Time