Quotes About Metamorphosis

When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

Just like seasons, people change.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

People need change. It awakens something deep inside allowing them to grow. Without change something sleeps inside and seldom awakes.

Change is hard and it hurts, but everybody changes even if they do not want to. It is recognizing the good changes and emphasizing them that you makes you a better person.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Everything change in just the blink of an eye.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Thus I who from infancy, had lived from day to day, with a sort of fixed idea of myself derived from others as well as myself, perceived for the first time, after witnessing the metamorphosis of all these people, that the time which had gone by for them, had gone by for me also and this revelation threw me into consternation.

Nature, like the catastrophe at Pompeii or the metamorphosis of a nymph, freezes us into an accustomed cast of countenance. In the same way, the intonations of our voice express our philosophy of life, what one says to oneself at each moment about things.

her own form is still rather vague; and we may wonder whether she will turn into a goddess, a table, or a bowl.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

It is Boden's third form of creativity that is the more mysterious and elusive, and that is transformational creativity. This describes those rare moments that are complete game changers. Every art form has these gear shifts. Think of Picasso and Cubism, Schoenberg and atonality, Joyce and modernism. They are like phase changes, when water suddenly goes from a liquid to a gas.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the deeper water.

They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons.

Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly . . .

Love turns animal into angel, but also conversely.