Quotes About Metamorphosis

I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

It's like suddenly the canvas of my life has been cleared, and a completely new picture is painted. That's how I've been feeling ever since 'Sacred Games' was streamed.

I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, 'I wish I could change bodies.'

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

The journey transforms the destination.

I'm inviting you to realize that we're not talking about changing from an apple to an orange, which is too easy and still in the domain of familiar things, as is simply imagining a "better self". The demand here is more like transforming from being an apple to being the color blue, or infinite space.

It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.

Transcendence is transformation.

By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still

nouveaux undead

He felt like some overgrown pupa plagued by second thoughts, trying to climb back into its husk.

Change alone is unchanging. —Heraclitus

Nothing is like anything he knows. It's like being born a second time.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

It does get difficult to shift from a 'Wanted' to a 'Mod.'

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

I'm growing up backwards.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.