Quotes About Metamorphosis

Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony

The face beside me was twisted almost unrecognisably for a moment, while through the whole body there passed a shivering motion—as if all the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and glands were readjusting themselves to a radically different posture, set of stresses, and general personality.

The change happened whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous.

Dear brother, do not drink, she began; but she was too late, for her brother had already knelt by the stream to drink, and as the first drop of water touched his lips he became a fawn. How the little sister wept over the enchanted brother

One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.

La mariposa disecada se convierte en una mamariposa disesecada la mamariposa disesecada se convierte en una granmamariposa grandisesecada

Every hundred feet the world changes

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I'm a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I've been

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes

It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Nothing is the same.

The next few rooms held a severed hand that was trying to grow itself a new body; a Time Agent whose latest regeneration had gone terribly wrong, turning him inside out; and a sorry-looking werewolf with mange.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

Es difícil mantener todo igual cuando las mismas cosas lucen y se sienten diferentes.

Only change brings about change.

It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.