Quotes About Metamorphosis

Es la historia de las mariposas, Martín; las que no mueren, conservan para siempre las señales del fuego que les quemó las alas - Rafael san Luis

Sai cosa si fa quando non se ne può più? Si cambia.

Señor, la jaula se ha vuelto pájaro.

No cuentes el tiempo sino tus transformaciones

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying 'And then I shall have wings and antennae,' there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

La selva era el mundo de la mentira, de la trampa, y del falso semblante; allí todo era disfraz, estratagema, juego de apariencias, metamorfosis.

But nothing has ever been—nor will it ever be—the way it used to be.

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.

?nsan, tekrar yücelmesi için kendini yeni ba?tan in?a etmek zorundad?r. Ve bu yenile?meyi ?zd?rap çekmeden yapamaz. Çünkü o hem mermerdir, hem de heykeltra?. Hakiki biçimini yeniden kazanmak için, büyük çekiç darbelerini kendi maddesine indirerek k?v?lc?mlar ç?karacakt?r.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

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

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.