Quotes About Metamorphosis

Love is basically like leaches .... They suck until they cant get enough of you. Until you find a catapillar that will turn into the butterfly that you have wished for all of your life. Then they just spread their wings and fly away.

I used to be someone.

It was true that in a measure she could take them with her, but, robbed of their old environments, they would appear in such new guises that they would almost cease to be themselves.

What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at least remembers that transformation is possible.

You gotta change. With life. Life changes, you got to go with it. Or you get pulled apart." I

La légende dit que Charlie Chaplin et Adolf Hitler se changeaient en lions à la nuit tombante ; l'un a concentré son énergie vers la création, l'autre vers la destruction. Pourtant, dans leur forme animale, il était quasiment impossible de les discerner l'un de l'autre.

A? vrea s? m? preschimb într-un Camel light. S? m? r?suceasc? ea pe degete, s? ating cerul gurii ei împ?r?te?ti, s? devin un fuior de fum sub?ire ?i s? m? rostogolesc pe esofag, s? ling partea l?untric? a sânilor ?i, în cele din urm?, s? prind r?d?cini în pl?mânii ei ca o floare neagr? de catran.

Ô joie de la cortisone, je suis en train de me transformer en hamster. J'aurai pu devenir une chauve-souris comme n'importe quel vampire, mais non, quand on est un petit roux, on vire plutôt hamster.

One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.

The caterpillar gets all the taunts; the butterfly gets all the praise.

The caterpillar's end is the butterfly's beginning.

Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.

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

Your past must die for your future to live.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that is the real life lesson.

every moment of our life is a . . . kind of turning.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

The journal represents the series of reference points which a writer establishes in order to keep track of himself when he begins to suspect the dangerous metamorphosis to which he is exposed. It is a route that remains viable; it is something like a watchman's walkway upon ramparts: parallel to, overlooking, and sometimes skirting around the other path—the one where to stray is the endless task. Here true things are still spoken of.

What is given is the metamorphosis of brute being, the giving birth.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Smrt je preseljenje iz ku?e u ku?u. To nije nestanak ve? drugo ro?enje. Kao što prsne ljuska jajeta kad se pile potpuno razvije, tako do?e vrijeme da se rastave duša i tijelo. Smrt je nužnost u neizbježnosti prelaska u drugi svijet, u kome ?ovjek dostiže svoj puni uspon.

Autrefois tu pensais comme moi, ou presque, comme nous tous. Il n'est pas facile de se transformer, il faut rejeter tout ce que l'on a été, ce que l'on a appris et acquis, toutes ses habitudes. Mais toi tu t'es transformé, entièrement. C'est comme si tu avais réappris à marcher, à balbutier tes premières paroles, à te créer de nouvelles habitudes. La raison devait être très importante.

When a creature begins to emerge from it's chrysails there is a point at which it is neither one thing nor the other, not quite grown into a new identity nor rid of the old one. It's wings are folded and sticky, it's colours hidden. Whether it will emerge in shades of emerald and lapis lazuli or the colour of mud is yet to be revealed. It is that long, still, moment of waiting that fascinates me utterly. The suspence of waiting for beauty to unfurl.