Quotes About Metamorphosis

before, we swam, and now we are swum.

in short, life would be maintained as it had gone on till then, in its achieved, perfect forms, without metamorphoses or additions with dubious outcome, and every individual would be able to develop his own nature, to arrive at the essence of himself and of all things.

y todo, hervidero de abejas, velos, nubes de humo, le parecía a Cosimo un encantamiento que aquel hombre trataba de suscitar para desaparecer de allí, borrarse, volar lejos, y luego, renacer siendo otro, o en otro tiempo, o en otro lugar. Pero era un mago de poca monta, porque reaparecía siempre igual, acaso chupándose una yema del dedo pinchada.

For a moment he became smoke. How intimate, now, the cloudy sky.

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

The bones changed everything.

Everything change with mine, Katya.

Let's get lost in the dark, forget who we were, and resurface as something new.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

And then I realized that whatever we did, it wouldn't feel like it did before.

I think we are born square and we die round. As waters of life wash over us, we lose our sharp corners, and that can be good; we take on surprising, satisfying new shapes.

Chennai has changed a lot. I knew Adyar as a village which has now become the heart of the metropolis. But my heart still beats for the old Madras.

needed to remember that he would never be that man again. As he was now, he did not

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

Le plus beau printemps du monde, l'été le plus torride s'éteint après tout un jour, et c'est le raisonnable automne, l'hiver sans hypocrisie.

salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life.

the feelings flattened and folded and turned into something else, like emotional origami.

There was always, even now, a before and an after.

They need to fight their way out of the cocoon. It builds their wings and muscles. It's the struggle that saves them. Without it they're crippled. If you help an emperor moth, you kill it.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Dar câte crisalide mor f?r? s? ajung? la ultima faz?, f?r? s? sparg? coconul, nel?sând s? ias? fluturele din el! Anima, anima, sufleÅ£el drag… Multicolor, sprinÅ£ar, efemer – ÅŸi minunat. Cât de multe fiinÅ£e r?mân îns? larve pân? la moarte, f?r? s? înÅ£eleag? c? n-o s? ajung? niciodat? la maturitate!