Quotes About Metamorphosis

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others. —Fernando Pessoa

For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.

The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been.

she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human beings and began instead to resemble other orders of living creatures. Her arms lay in her lap, so extravagantly spotted with brown that they were like two fish. Her skin was the white, almost transparent skin of the extremely old, as fine and wrinkled as a spider's web, with veins of knotted blue.

También la larva conoce la dignidad de la transformación, de sus blandos tejidos puede salir el inesperado esplendor de una mariposa.

Apa yang kita sebut akhir, seringkali hanya sejenis metamorfosis

Che la metamorfosi sia anche alla base della vita degli esseri umani è un'idea fortemente osteggiata dalla confortevole dittatura della post-modernità.

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

There is no death, only a change of worlds. –Duwamish

You've changed my life, Eva. And you did the impossible: you transformed me. I like who I am now. I never thought that would happen.

Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one's ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star --from Death & Co.

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

If you want to change

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Things change, but only into themselves. Downstairs

And just like that, it all goes. You think it will never change but that's a lie. Things can change in a day.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

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

The central riddle I've set out to solve concerns the self's continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably?

Our preteens need for us to remain emotionally connected and stable, because they're so unstable during this period. They need to know that we may not love their behavior but that, despite the fact that they're uncomfortable during their metamorphosis, we aren't going anywhere, and we will continue to love them, confident that, in due time, they will get through this.