Island Metaphor Quotes

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.