Clothing Metaphor Quotes

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

My father writes through clothes.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

A burger is a black dress; a kebab is a Met Gala gown.

And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

Allah clothed me with a robe. If He wills He will take it away from me, and if He wills He will keep it on me.

Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

The rich must protect the poor just as clothes protect the body.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.