Quotes About Metamorphosis

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Use time to convert yourself

Everyday. Every single day I watched how big the tree was. How magnificent that. One day just like that I climbed it. That day everything changed. Neither was the tree same to me nor was I anymore.

While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change!

The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

It is an odd thing about the guests in a big hotel. Not a single one goes out through the revolving door the same as when he came in.

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.

I put a fish ball in my mouth. My optimism covered the whole ball as if the fish had never died, had never been gutted and rolled into a humiliating shape. To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

It might be compared to some organism which sloughs off its old skin, or texture, in order to live again. It is a city which has the ability to dance upon its own ashes.

En la habitación de la niña tuvo la sensación de despedirse de algo, no de la niña, sino de la manera de vivir que hasta ahora le había correspondido vivir. Ya no existía ninguna manera de vivir para él.

Christ changed every human being he ever met. In fact, He changed history, splitting it open like a coconut and inserting eternity into the split between B.C. and A.D. If anyone claims to have met Him without being changed, he has not met Him at all. When you touch Him, you touch lightning. Socrates is puzzled because he is looking for the burn marks.

As for the thing that changes, although it can be what it will become, it is not yet what it will become. It actually exists right now in this state (an acorn); it will actually exist in that state (large oak tree). But it is not actually in that state now. It only has the potentiality for that state.