Quotes About Metamorphosis

We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?

Life that means for us to transform constantly into light and flame all that we are, or meet with.

Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like god transformed into an animal.

Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!

How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes?

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

I'm like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I'll be a woman and the next day a snake.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Change in all things is sweet.

my view of this world had been transformed from horrible to hallowed.

Nothing is lost; destruction is only a name for a change of substance Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, c. 50 BC

Roy Peter Clark

Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses

Suspeito que estejamos vivendo um momento de metamorfose da nossa condição humana. Até agora temos sido habitantes do mundo da vida. Nosso habitat é constituído por florestas, animais, rios e mares. Somos seres biológicos, corpos. Mas agora estamos mudando de casa. Estamos trocando nossa casa biológica por uma outra casa, eletrônica.

You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins.

Our skin, I thought, is like the leaf of a tree, young and green and shiny; then it gets darker and heavier, sometimes spotted with disease, sometimes eaten away; then fading, yellow and red, then falling, crumbling into dust or feeding the flames of fire.

On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes .

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.