Quotes About Metamorphosis

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

La península ibérica me parece un minicontinente prodigioso y sueño con el día en que, previo acuerdo con los portugueses, se metamorfosee en República Federal Ibérica.

nothing ever vanished, not totally. Instead, things altered shape, substance, meaning.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Rust through washing never became white.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Ningún esfuerzo convierte a un cuervo negro en un halcón blanco. Anwar-i-Suhaili

when you were alone, you became someone else, someone different. Someone you would rather be.

La función de un elemento nutritivo es la de transmutarse, no la de imprimir huellas indelebles.

Todo lo que entra en una mina de sal se convierte en sal.

La vela quemó a la polilla: Pero pronto desaparecerá en su propia grasa.

At last it had come, the day when I should become a hog! I tried out my teeth on the bark of trees; I contemplated my snout with delight. There was not remaining the least morsel of divinity. I was capable of raising my soul up to the excessive elevation of that ineffable sensuality.

Everybody changes, Ellie figured. Everybody starts out as one kind of person and ends up being somebody else. … Even when you don't notice it, life is rearranging you.

Finally, we notice how already having the Core State naturally transforms the original behavior we didn't like.

I myself went into a hospital and came out French.

First we molt, then spin a web, after this we weave, until our food is dead. Next dancing a jig, And waiting for a meal, Then we wrestle a bit Til we sit and eat our fill." Captain Muntweight

I mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I lost myself. In between." "Oh," I said, and then I just sat there, because something about that idea—that you could be one person in one moment and then wake up and be completely different—punched me in the gut.

In between." "Oh," I said, and then I just sat there, because something about that idea—that you could be one person in one moment and then wake up and be completely different—punched me in the gut.

I just sat there, because something about that idea—that you could be one person in one moment and then wake up and be completely different—punched me in the gut.

Llegó a Roma española, católica, virgen y rica y se va francesa, atea, puta y mendiga. Sobre Cristina de Suecia

Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the moon is full and bright.

When, after a long life, it falls out That he takes on a form he had sought And every word carved in stone Grows its hoarfrost, what then? Torches Of Dionysian choruses in the dark mountains From when he comes. And half of the sky With its snaky clouds. A mirror before him. In the mirror the already severed, perishing Thing.

Life was like that, thought Liz. You drifted on for years and years—then, suddenly, everything happened at once and all the things that had seemed so stable dissolved and disintegrated before your eyes…and life was new.