What is life? There is no straightforward answer to this question because no one knows what it is. It’s unfathomable, it’s indescribable. Perhaps the only way to define it or to understand it is to think of it in terms of similes and metaphors.
This article is a collection of the best ‘life is like’ quotes and metaphors that contain deep wisdom on the nature of life and living.
1. Life is like a camera
Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot. – Ziad K. Abdelnour
2. Life is like a book
Life is like a book, it is told in chapters, and you cannot embrace the next chapter until you close the current one. – Casey Neistat
Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do…then you never get to find out what happens next! – Brian Falkner
Life is like a book, and every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is. – Fábio Moon
Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending. – J.B. Taylor
I’ve learned that life is like a book. Sometimes we must close a chapter and begin the next one. – Hanz
3. Life is like a mirror
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. – Peace Pilgrim
4. Life is like a piano
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. – Tom Lehrer
Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life. – Suzy Kassem
Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music. – Ehssan
5. Life is like a coin
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. – Lillian Dickson
Your life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you want, but only once. Make sure you invest it and don’t waste it. Invest it in something that matters to you and matters for eternity. – Tony Evens
6. Life is like a video game
Sometimes life is like a video game. When things get harder, and the obstacles get tougher, it just means you leveled up. – Lilah Pace
7. Life is like a box of chocolate
Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’re going to get. – Winston Groom, (Forrest Gump)
8. Life is like a library
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
9. Life is like a boxing match
Life is like a boxing match. Defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again. – Kristen Ashley
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land. – Kevin Lane (The Shawshank Prevention)
10. Life is like a restaurant
Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. – Moffat Machingura
11. Life is like a drive on a highway
They say life is like a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own. – Jess “Chief” Brynjulson
Life is like a drive on a highway. There will always be someone behind, along and ahead of you. No matter how many people you overtake, life will always serve you with a new challenge, a new commuter driving ahead of you. Destination is the same for everyone, but what matters in the end is – how much you enjoyed the drive! – Mehek Bassi
12. Life is like a theater
Life is like a theater, but the question is not whether you are in the audience or on the stage but rather, are you where you want to be? – A.B. Potts
13. Life is like a 10 speed bike
Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz
14. Life is like a grindstone
Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you’re made of. – Jacob M. Braude
15. Life is like a sketchbook
Life is like a sketchbook, every page is a new day, every picture is a new story and every line is a new path, we just need to be smart enough to create our own masterpieces. – Jes K.
16. Life is like a mosaic
Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself. – Maria Shriver
17. Life is like a garden
Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow. – Paulo Coelho
18. Life is like a game of cards
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don’t have that old hand anymore. Look at what you have now. – Barbara Delinsky
19. Life is like a landscape
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. – Charles Lindberg
20. Life is like a prism
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. – Jonathan Kellerman
21. Life is like a jigsaw
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece! – Terry McMillan
22. Life is like a teacher
Life is like a great teacher, she will repeat the lesson until you learn. – Ricky Martin
23. Life is like a bowl of spaghetti
Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball. – Sharon Creech
24. Life is like a mountain
Life is like a mountain. When you get to the peak, remember the valley exists. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
25. Life is like a trumpet
Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it. – William Christopher Handy
26. Life is like a snowball
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. – Warren Buffett
27. Life is like a foot race
Life is like a foot race, there will always be people who are faster than you, and there will always be those who are slower than you. What matters, in the end, is how you ran your race. – Joël Dicker
28. Life is like a balloon
Your life is like a balloon; if you never let yourself go, you will never know how far you can rise. – Linda Poindexter
29. Life is like a combination lock
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want. – Brian Tracy
30. Life is like a ferris wheel
Life is like a Ferris wheel, going ‘round and ‘round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around. – Samyann, Yesterday: A Novel of Reincarnation
31. Life is like a taxi
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. – Lou Erickso
32. Life is like a steering wheel
Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction. – Kellie Elmore
33. Life is like a game of limbo in reverse
Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion. – Ryan Lilly
34. Life is like a rollercoaster
Life is like a rollercoaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride! – Habeeb Akande
Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief. – Susan Bennett
35. Life is like a drawing
Life is like a drawing without an eraser. – John W Gardner
36. Life is like a game of chess
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. – Allan Rufus
37. Life is like a wheel
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again. – Stephen King
Life is like a long note; it persists without variance, without wavering. There is no cessation in sound or pause in tempo. It continues on, and we must master it or it will master us. – Amy Harmon
38. Life is like a collage
Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life. – Amy Leigh Mercree
39. Life is like photography
Life is like photography. We develop from negatives. – Anon
40. Life is like a bicycle
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance; you must keep on moving. – Albert Einstein
41. Life is like a wheel
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
– Stephen King
42. Life is like a sandwich
Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? – Allan Rufus
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