Quotes About Metamorphosis

She thought the old April might be struggling to get through the creature she had become.

And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked.

Lance transformed into a giant banana.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature.

Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.

I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.

Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis.

An idea, a being, anything which becomes incarnate loses identity, turns grotesque.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." —TRINA PAULUS

Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter.

I'm different to how I used to be but then I think having a baby changes everyone.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

Suddenly pressing both hands on her heart, she fell to the ground, and the mist rose from her and melted in the air. I ran to her. But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast. A moment more and her legs, hurrying from her body, sped away serpents. From her shoulders fled her arms as in terror, serpents also. Then something flew up from her like a bat, and when I looked again, she was gone.

There was the lamp--dead indeed, and so changed that she would never have taken it for a lamp but for the shape! No, it was not the lamp anymore now it was dead, for all that made it a lamp was gone, namely, the bright shining of it.

Most of them would have nothing to do with a caterpillar, except watch it through its changes; but when at length it came from its retirement with wings, all would immediately address it as Sister Butterfly, congratulating it on its metamorphosis--for which they used a word that meant something like REPENTANCE--and evidently regarding it as something sacred.

We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?

We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.

For a few days after getting into the water the toad concentrates on building up his strength by eating small insects. Presently he has swollen to his normal size again, and then he goes through a phase of intense sexiness.