Quotes About Metamorphosis

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the colossal vitality of his illusion. Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

Now, when a new day dawns for us after the long night of darkness and the phoenix rises regenerated from its ashes, we have invented a new self. And the physical, biological expression of the new self is literally becoming someone else. That's true metamorphosis.

In order to change your life, you have to literally become someone else.

ha incorporado a nuestro «yo» biológico y ya se ha convertido en nuestra segunda piel.

desaparecían,

What's your real name?" I asked. "Zusane," she said. "Zusane Zaksauskas. But now I am Gobija, goddess of fire.

When we die, we come bac different. Like, with greener eyes, or as some far off star.

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

The only thing constant is change

Change is the only constant.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

Death is another life.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.