Quotes About Metamorphosis

Oh, yes! Some scholars believe the motif was used as a means of illustrating the Egyptian belief in resurrection. It is an obvious parallel with the butterfly's own metamorphosis, is it not?

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

Butterflies are trapped first, before they are free.

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.

A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.

i am changingand i am loving change.

Change is fearful, but at the end it is beautiful.

Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/

Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.

Timpul, pur ?i simplu, trecuse pe deasupra, cu cortegiul lui de nout??i ?i de prefaceri, ?i aruncase asupra eviden?ei un fel de v?l de obscuritate.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

Her body was fermenting like new wine.

Change nothing so that everything will be different

To me, this book is sort of like a snakeskin. A snakeskin is something you might find on the side of the road and make something out of—a belt, say, or a hatband. The snake itself heads off doing more snake stuff—getting it on with lady snakes, eating rats, making more snakeskins, et cetera.

He had carved his face and filled the grooves with green pigment. He had forked his tongue and ground his teeth and nails into sharp points. Ying now looked like a dragon. A crazy, vengeful sixteen-year-old dragon. Malao

Perché, dopo averla rinviata in così tanti modi, credo che la mia trasformazione sarà più radicale del previsto, che potrei diventare davvero qualcosa di simile alla creatura lamentosa. A quel punto vedrò la luna vera?

And, if I'm honest, I can't shake the sense that he is still here, somewhere, even if utterly transformed - in the eye of a dolphin, in the touch of an uprising of moss, anywhere and everywhere.

Already his wings were burning up and he felt more like some ponderous moaning creature trapped in the mire.

en la muerte no hay dolor, miedo, ansiedad ni pena. Sólo se siente el agrado y la serenidad de una transformación en mariposa.

A new self reveals itself when the old carapace has shed and died, as though we live in exoskeletons with something truer underneath.

You're not a frog; you're a toad

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.