Quotes About Metamorphosis

ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

For a moment, she wondered why she was not shocked herself. But she wasn't. Everything changed that day at Coldhallow House, that last day, not least Elinor herself. She wasn't sure what she was to become, but it was not someone who would be shocked by the unconventional.

We are one …… I am what she was, she is what I became

They'll know we are transformed when our behavior truly changes. — James Stuart Bell

Yet the nearly metamorphic quality of his successes would fully exceed the dominion of money.

L'eau est vraiment l'élément transitoire. Il est la métamorphose ontologique essentielle entre le feu et la terre

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape and takes on a new one..... A new phase of the spirit is preparing itself. Philosophy especially has to welcome its appearance and acknowledge it, while others, who oppose it impotently, cling the past.

i want to implode— i want to (un)become

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that's why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.

Henceforward burn what thou hast worshipped, and worship what thou hast burned.

People change just in a blink! You won't get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.

It seemed like everyone was wrapping themselves in chrysali and having late-in-life emergences as different kinds of creatures, and what this made clear was that we weren't becoming anything. We felt like caterpillars who didn't know that being a caterpillar wasn't the endgame. We felt like foamy pond water.

Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Those cuts on my ribs are because I am trying to open gills before the flood comes.

No one could have predicted this, but this is how the world works. One moment, you are stuck, and then the moment expands, as if God were forcing it open with his pretty bare hands, and you find yourself in another dimension, and you are still you, but the world around you has suddenly changed colours.

Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.

Kesepian adalah benang-benang halus ulat sutera yang perlahan-lahan, lembar demi lembar, mengurung orang sehingga ulat yang ada di dalamnya ingin segera melepaskan diri menjadi wujud yang sama sekali berbeda, yang bisa saja tidak diingat lagi asal-usulnya. Hanya ulat busuk yang tidak ingin menjadi kupu-kupu. (81)