Quotes About Metamorphosis

In that expression, Dust glimpsed the woman she had not been, the woman whose body she now inhabited.

How much of you has to die before you stop being you and become somebody else?

The red wolf blurred and retreated, a smooth, reshaping of form that left him standing, nude, facing her. Seeker bit her lip and kept her gaze an his eyes, telling herself the breathless pain she felt was nothing but nervousness.

It is not easy," he began, "for the snake to shed skin. The new skin underneath is extremely sensitive, tender to the slightest touch. The snake at this time has a tendency to heightened temperament. It is all in the natural order of things.

Maybe we all change over time.

Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures

mythical phoenix bird who remains awake through the fires of change, rises from the ashes of death, and is reborn into his most vibrant and enlightened self.

You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff," I called. "It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf.

With Saint Augustine, we come to the end of the road as far as the Greco-Roman world is concerned.

Instead of stability, Heraclitus said, there is only change: ceaseless, relentless, and without end. In the desperate watercourse of existence, any notion we have of permanent or fixed values, even of our own body, is pure illusion. Instead, everywhere we look, everything we see is in constant flux and change.

Y si un trozo de madera descubre que es un violín?

Arthur Rimbaud

Things can change in a day.

To make two ears grow where one grew before is a profound solace to my spirit. To watch a hired man do it would be an even profounder solace.

Unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give habitance to the shabby sentiments, the ugly familiarities, the calligraphic pandemonium-a world of abundance acquired of greed. Thus are ye outcasts! Ye habitate dung-heaps; your glorious palaces are hospitals set amid cemeteries. [...] Can you realize of Heaven when it exists WITHOUT?

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

When Baba Faiz dies, faizi gets born. While faizi dies, Baba Faiz gets reborn. However, I never die.

Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

In real life, we think people don't change, but they do. People do change in profound ways with all the different major things that happen in their lives.

Gosh, I'm so different from what I used to be.