Quotes About Metamorphosis

They open their wings, flash patterns and colors, fly from flower to flower. I, with the dark bristles and many feet of the former form, inch along the ground. Sometimes all I want is two armfuls of air, a fistful of sky.

Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

The physiological condition for memory and hence for learning seems to be a certain continuity of organization, which allows the alterations produced by outer sense impressions to be retained as more or less permanent changes of structure or function . Metamorphosis is too radical to leave much lasting record of these changes. It is indeed hard to conceive of a memory of any precision which can survive this process of radical internal reconstruction.

Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.

Change is a difficult task, a dying, a dreaming, an awakening.

he who has tasted it, who has stood at the watershed of this world and looked across into the new land, into the dwelling of the night ? truly, he will never return to the labours of the world, to the land where the light is housed in ceaseless unrest.

Encerrar el amor en un círculo, condenándolo a vivir en una cárcel eterna, no servirá para protegerlo de los cambios y las metamorfosis que caracterizan las cosas humanas

Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.

Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.

Anyanwu said. "This is the way I look when I do nothing. And this is the way I look when I marry a new husband." "But … you

JOÃO CHOSE AAOR. HE accepted help from it and talked to it and caressed its small breasts once he realized that neither it nor anyone else minded this. The breasts did not represent true mammary glands. Aaor would probably lose them when it metamorphosed. Most constructs did, even when they became female. But João liked them. Aaor simply enjoyed the contact.

The trouble with a kitten is that....... It eventually becomes a cat!

The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT

Alas! The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.

An image of an image, which is a perfect place to live if you want to be something other than what you once were.

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

To wcale nie jest proste. Nie wystarczy zwyk?e sprz?tanie. Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

Knowledge that is grown only on the outside changes nothing inside a man, or merely changes him on the surface, as one garment is changed for another. But he who learns by taking things inside himself undergoes constant transformation, because he incorporates what he learns into his being.

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

From that moment, the dull-witted young man vanished from memory, to be replaced by a bold and dashing figure.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.