Quotes About Metamorphosis

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite.

Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another.

Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now.

You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster.

Vivir esos cambios es animarnos a permitir que las cosas dejen de ser para que den lugar a otras nuevas cosas.

Perder es dejar algo «que era», para entrar en otro lugar donde hay otra cosa «que es». Y eso «que es» no es lo mismo «que era».

Muttering, rolling our eyeballs upward, we are becoming a new kind of bivalve

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

We must constantly die one way or another to the selfhood already achieved.

How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied. 'You mean to die?' asked Pooh. 'Yes and now,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

first, like a hornet's nest, it's no more than a fleck of mud in a wooden joist. But it grows, and portholes appear, and soon a steady drone can be heard within.

But I didn't say any of that. I did a complete turnaround.

People change all the time.

People change, they grow.

I'm very interested in how people change.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

How can you change the fruit without changing the root ?! It is not puzzling matter ? Why did you make it so ?!

Change is constant. When we strive to become a better person than who we were yesterday, that change becomes sweetest.