54 Simile Quotes To Inspire

In the vast world of literature, similes have consistently played a crucial role in evoking vivid imagery and deep emotions. By comparing one thing to another using "like" or "as," these figurative expressions help us see the world from a fresh perspective. Whether you're a writer seeking inspiration, a student looking for poignant examples, or simply a lover of beautiful language, our curated collection of the top 54 simile quotes is sure to spark your imagination and awaken your senses. Dive in and let these powerful comparisons illuminate your thoughts.

1. “A house without books is like a room without windows.” - Horace Mann

2. “Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.” - Terry Pratchett

3. “Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.” - Fulton J. Sheen

4. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

5. “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” - Nicholas Sparks

6. “He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.” - Cassandra Clare

7. “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” - Jonathan Swift

8. “He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.” - Cassandra Clare

9. “Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.” - Arundhati Roy

10. “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

11. “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.” - Simone Elkeles

12. “Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” - Emma Smith

13. “Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.” - Jay Bylsma

14. “Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come” - Mario Puzo

15. “Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.” - Patricia Briggs

16. “Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.” - J.K. Rowling

17. “A friend... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.” - Andrea Cremer

18. “A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.” - Roman Payne

19. “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

20. “Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” - Carl Sandburg

21. “Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.” - David Archuleta

22. “I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.” - Sophie Jordan

23. “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

24. “Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.” - Fiona Wood

25. “And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird” - Lisa Schroeder

26. “Love is like the human appendix. You take it for granted while it's there, but when it's suddenly gone you're forced to endure horrible pain that can only be alleviated through drugs.” - Reverend Jen

27. “Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast” - Karen Foxlee

28. “Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.” - Lemony Snicket

29. “Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.” - John Callahan

30. “The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.” - Sarah Addison Allen

31. “Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.” - Jodi Picoult

32. “Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance” - Dalai Lama XIV

33. “He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.” - David Sedaris

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

35. “You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.” - Doug Walker

36. “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

37. “Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.” - Suzanne Collins

38. “Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

39. “A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.” - Phoebe Stone

40. “Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.” - Ernest Hemingway

41. “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

42. “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” - Winston S. Churchill

43. “The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.” - George R.R. Martin

44. “Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.” - Chet Raymo

45. “His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.” - Juliet Marillier

46. “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

47. “... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved.” - Annie Proulx

48. “My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.” - Tahereh Mafi

49. “...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.” - John Piper

50. “A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.” - John Piper

51. “She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.” - Patrick Rothfuss

52. “Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.” - Elizabeth Wein

53. “...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...” - Anne Rivers Siddons

54. “Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.” - Neal Shusterman