Quotes About Metamorphosis

If only cats grew into kittens.

The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

DeÄŸiÅŸmekte olduÄŸumu ne diye birine söyleyeyim ki? DeÄŸiÅŸirken, eski ben olarak kalm?yorum ve ÅŸimdiye kadarkinden biraz daha baÅŸkay?m, dolay?s?yla tan???m kimse olmad??? ortada. Ve yabanc?lara, beni tan?mayan insanlara mümkün deÄŸil yazamam.

if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst from the world of your body into the narrower world.

Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes.

A machine, now, to help boys change from peach fuzz to briar bramble, girls from toadstools to nectarine.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.