Quotes About Metamorphosis

Nothing is permanent but change.

Everything changes but change itself.

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled, enchanted.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

I am not now That which I have been.

Everything changes but change.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

By changing—we become what we always wanted to be.

It's amazing how people can change behind closed doors.

I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.

She was oozing backwards into the tree. Her bones were going to mate with the grain of the wood. I am becoming part of the forest.

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.

You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls,

Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!

Haymitch said you wanted to talk to me," I say. "Look at you, for starters." It's like he's waiting for me to transform into a hybrid drooling wolf right before his eyes.

But we all know that things change. Whether we want them to or not.