Quotes About Metamorphosis

Gregor wanted to drag himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing he saw was the door

The Hunter has been turned into a butterfly. Do not laugh.

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Camel trips do not begin or end, they merely change form.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

El retorno del axolote representa la terquedad por volver a un progreso castrado por el atraso, a un pasado donde supuestamente el pueblo vive feliz estancado en la metamorfosis frustrada. Se trata de la restauración del nacionalismo revolucionario priista, ese viejo enemigo de la democracia.

Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.

It wasn't the movies that caused the metamorphosis. It was just the simple act of caring.

We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.

With each butterfly´s arrival, there´s a chance for me to be the adult incarnation of the little girl in the picture book I once loved.

JANIE GETS STRANGER EVERY YEAR.

A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there's only a bud, and after that nothing.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

deep inside me there's a perpetual seething, like the bottom of a geyser, and I keep hoping that things will come to an eruption once and for all, so that I can turn into a different person.

He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it

Nowhere! It is merely to show you that one is born to life in many forms, in many shapes, as tree, or as stone, as water, as butterfly, or as woman. So one may also be born a character in a play.

The moment you step into a landscape it becomes another one.

come piante novelle, Rinovellate di novelle fronde.

In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.