/lit/ - Literature

I don't understand what you're asking of me.

A compass that always points North but cannot lead a man out of the forest.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know when you're going to get raped.

a boot stamping on a human face forever

A mountain to climb.

Except most people haven't a fucking clue where the mountain is, all lost in the forest stomping around with their hiking boots.

a piece of shit rolling down a hill soundtracked by queen's don't stop me now in sepia tones and slow motion

A lightning bug trapped in a bottle being intently watched by a man in a jail cell, who is being guarded by a man with massive medical bills, being treated by a doctor with massive insurance bills, all located on giant blue and green orb hurtling through space.

Life is like a box of chocolates, it lasts a lot shorter for fat people.

YOLO

A tedious story without meaning or direction.

the christian religion minus the afterlife

>>2767772
I laughed.

bigfoot

man versus himself

>>2767787
HA.


Life. History:
Its the biggest most complex story of all time. A century serves as a chapter. With a cast in the hundreds of thousands, biographies are mere footnotes. simply impossible to take the glorious magnitude all in. The basic plot thus far is our search for meaning and place and our struggle with ourselves for freedom, justice and security, and dealing with their apparent contradictions. The last big twist in the story. There never was a god!

Life is as pointless as a broken compass.

>>2767907
>Freedom
>Pointless

Lazy whiner.

>implying life can be summed up in a metaphor

Life is way too complex and interesting to be compared to anything else.

>>2767910
Freedom is lifes great lie.

>>2767668
Rick?

"Life's a garden, dig it? Make it work for you."

Joe Dirt.

>>2767917
Money is its biggest lie.

But you're Loki, you get paid to say things like that

smooth and striated like scored clay

>>2767990
>Money is its biggest lie.
Well, if you have everything you need already.

Deep

Life is like that maple sirup that my girlfriend and I bought. We wanted to save it to treat ourselves, so we only had some twice, but then it got mouldy and we had to throw it out.

in after sisyphus

>Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.

Can't put it better than Freddy. Not that it's a metaphor. But hey.

>>2765674
shit, interesting

Life is like running over wet sand until you're too old or fat to resist getting swallowed

>>2768568
quicksand, I meant quicksand. Or maybe custard, that would make more sense

life is like mario party 3. The game itself is stupid, but the minigames are REALLY fun.

The sea

"This is the suspicion we must never attempt to verify: that the whole of creation might best be pictured as an untenanted room filled with echoes of nothingness."

its like sucking dick

>>2768737
covered in shit

I lift up my cup. It leaves a ring of tea. I wipe up the ring of tea and put the cup back down. I lift up my cup. It leaves a ring of tea.

Life's as simple as a platerpuss

Life's as simple as a platterpuss.

platypus

>>2768747
GET A CLOTH, YOU FUCK

>>2765674

A path to find, and then to walk, all to a destination yet-unknown.

Life is a highway, and I'm going to ride it all night long.

>>2765674
I wrote this shitty poem in a poetry comp. course like two years ago:

Life is

like walking in pouring rain
at night, already so wet that there’s nothing
to keep dry so you just keep sloshing down

the road that’s really more of a river,
sounding with the thrum of waterfalls,
and that sound makes you forget

your destination and notice the sunken,
rippling lamplight in the road and how your
clothes hang heavy like loose, stretched skin

and how your feet don’t feel like yours,
but you’re as wet as you can be so you might
as well see where this road leads.

You’re afraid of what may hide in the dark
and how long you can last in the numbing
rain. The road horrifies. Despite this, you think,

It’s kind of pretty.

"things fall apart"
-Yeats

I have none.

>>2769241

A good quote to summarize the 20th century.

>>2768992
Ahh, exactly.

>>2768747
Do you have Parkinson's? Stop spilling tea.

>>2765674
"my body is a vehicle, and I will hand this fucker in like the rental car it is; with the windows smashed and the bumper hanging off"

"A giant dildo crushing the sun"

- Beck.

"Life is a very petulant and extremely irritating thirteen year old."

Life is war. Not defeat nor victory but war. What is happines? The feeling that resistance has been overcome, the feeling that ones power is increasing.

some are lucky
most are not
few will flourish
all will rot

All metaphors are to do with life.

>>2769340
What about metaphors for death?

Some ice skaters.

>>2769315
>>2769305
Terrible.