Quotes About Metamorphosis

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

You can't create a new reality with the same personality.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I'm afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn't be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.

Did it slip your mind that you turn furry and howl at the moon once a month?

a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. —Me turning into something, Lilith say.

Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

One has to die a bit to be reborn.

We are not Human Beings, we are humnan becomings

caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.

I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,' this

Butterfly Garden is especially important to me because it delves into sibling relationships and family hierarchy as children and as adults. It also deals with metamorphosis on various levels and an eventual letting go… of old beliefs, habits, rituals. Just as the butterfly sheds its cocoon to emerge in dazzling splendor, so too, if given proper nurturing and guidance, do we.

Love turns animal into angel, but also conversely.