Quotes About Metamorphosis

I was also gone in a sense that I was transformed, made over. You know that story of the man who wakes up and finds he's turned into a beetle? I was the beetle who woke up and saw the possibility of being a man.

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

The change in the sand corresponded to a change in himself. Perhaps, along with the water in the sand, he had found a new self.

Karen Joy Fowler

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but a metamorphosis of Muscovy.

I've heard that we're constantly shedding skin and it is totally replaced every seven years. So every seven years you're a different person. That's why people get the seven-year itch and stop getting on with their partner – it's because they're a different person.

In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

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

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

The light of morning decomposes everything.