Simile Quotes

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

~ Lemony Snicket

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

~ Albert Einstein

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

~ Carl Sandburg

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

~ Steve Martin

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

~ Lemony Snicket

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

~ Rick Riordan

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

~ Jodi Picoult

Sex is like air, it's not important unless you aren't getting any.

~ John Callahan

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.

~ Rachel Hill

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

~ Stephenie Meyer

If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

~ Juliet Marillier

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

~ Amit Kalantri

Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.

~ Osip Mandelstam

A novel rough draft is like bread dough, you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

~ Chris Baty

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

~ David Archuleta

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

~ Criss Jami

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

~ Terry Pratchett

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

~ Bill Maher

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

~ Leslie What

As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire. Hmm. Come to think of it, in no way whatsoever did the sun, in this instance, resemble a leaky boat. My apologies. That was a dreadful attempt at simile. Please allow me to try again. As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a self-luminous, gaseous sphere comprised mainly of of hydrogen and helium.

~ Cuthbert Soup

There was a graduate student in my cohort, this guy I dated, who told me he came to realize that doing physics is like this: there's a concrete wall twenty feet thick, and you're on one side, and on the other side is everything worth knowing. And all you have is a spoon. So you just have to take a spoon and start scraping at the wall: no other way. He works in a bookstore now.But I think of it this way. There is a jigsaw puzzle. It's infinitely large, with no edges or corners to help you out. We have to put it together: it's our duty. We will never finish, but we have to find our satisfactions where we can: when we place two pieces together that suggest we may have found the place where the sky touches the sea, or when we discover a piece that is beautiful in and of itself, that has an unusual color or a glimpse of an unexpected pattern. And the pieces that do not join together also tell you something. If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a hundred little joys.

~ Dexter Palmer

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A house without books is like a room without windows.

~ Horace Mann

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

~ John Green

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

~ Dexter Palmer

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

~ Catherine Lacey

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

~ Catherine Lacey

That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

~ Gregory Maguire

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

~ Katharine Graham

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

~ Raymond Chandler

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

~ Sophia Loren

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

~ Chet Raymo

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

~ John Green

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg