logo

Quotes About Metamorphosis

I will translate myself into a new language.
~ Frances Mayes
Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.
~ Francesca Lia Block
You never came out the way you came in.
~ Francis Spufford
I, an unnaturally large caterpillar, will reveal to you that of yourself which yet you know not
~ Frank Beddor
The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
~ Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
~ Frank Herbert
Nimic nu-i pierdut pentru totdeauna. Totul se întoarce dup? o vreme, dar s-ar putea s? nu recunoÅŸti forma schimbat? care revine.
~ Frank Herbert
For all of those years since birth they had been as one person. But their plan demanded now that they undergo a metamorphosis, going their separate ways into uniqueness where the sharing of daily experiences would never again unite them as they once had been united.
~ Frank Herbert
adult beefswelling
~ Frank Herbert
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…
~ Franz Kafka
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
~ Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
~ Franz Kafka
WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.
~ Franz Kafka
Als Gregor schon zur Hälfte aus dem Bette ragte – die neue Methode war mehr ein Spiel als eine Anstrengung, er brauchte immer nur ruckweise zu schaukeln – , fiel ihm ein, wie einfach alles wäre, wenn man ihm zu Hilfe käme.
~ Franz Kafka
Gregor erschrak, als er seine antwortende Stimme hörte, die wohl unverkennbar seine frühere war, in die sich aber, wie von unten her, ein nicht zu unterdrückendes, schmerzliches Piepsen mischte, das die Worte förmlich nur im ersten Augenblick in ihrer Deutlichkeit beließ, um sie im Nachklang derart zu zerstören, daß man nicht wußte, ob man recht gehört hatte.
~ Franz Kafka
you've undergone a total metamorphosis
~ Franz Kafka
As I lie in bed I assume the shape of a big beetle, a stag beetle or a cockchafer, I think.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He
~ Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' This is marvelously funny. Instead of waking up from a nightmare, Gregor wakes up into one. Reality, the only balm for bad dreams, is significantly less reassuring when you wake up hideously disfigured.
~ Franz Kafka
If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.
~ Franz Kafka
Una mañana, al despertar de sus sueños intranquilos, Gregor Samsa se encontró en su cama convertido en un monstruoso bicho.
~ Franz Kafka