Quotes About Metamorphosis

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on its wings of fortune.

the impossible strangeness of moving things.

Life is so Changeable as the Caterpillar into a Butterfly and Everyone like to be so Free as a Bird.

Go, and be as the butterfly

the trees began to form

Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.

Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth—and it was soon done—done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire.

I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.

You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

And when I shed my old skin, what soft and tender flesh did I expose?

De pronto ella sintió ganas de ser otra persona.

A lad changed to a shrub in spring, the shrub into a shepherd boy, A fine hair to a lyre string, snow into snow on hair piled high.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

and down they forgot as up they grew.

the forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long - and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

Most crawling reptilians, the most earthbound of all creatures, have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers and wings and turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn't become better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling and walking entirely.

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.