Quotes About Metamorphosis

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

Fact: Cells are constantly dying and new ones are taking their place Fact: After seven years have gone by, every cell in my body has died and a new one has taken its place. Do the math. That means that every seven years, I'm a totally new me. not one of the old cells remains. Twice, I've had a total makeover

Human things have long since jumped the shark.

The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

My nature just changes.

She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it.

In the world born from him, a person could now become anything.

To be another person than the one you were before means more than I understand. But

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

things have to break down for the new thing to come in.

seconds she had changed, already I no longer

She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn't yet whoever she was becoming.

It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.

every living thing struggles to emerge from its cocoon or shell in order to be what it was meant to be.

There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other

If Kafka had been a woman, then Gregor Samsa would not have turned into an insect, he would not have had to. Gregor would be Gretel and she would wake up one morning pregnant. She would try to roll over and discover she was stuck on her back. She would wave her little hands uselessly in the air.

The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. 1 SAMUEL 10:6

The butterfly owns her now. It covers her and her wounds.

I do a death dance, I lay a snake skin…

He turns the key. Presto! It opens this book of odd tales which transform the Brothers Grimm. Transform? As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture. (And it could.)

Now she would be part girl, part hardening gray sludge. And no one would notice the difference.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.