Quotes About Metamorphosis

I don't know if there's an illustration more clear as to what can really take place in a person's life spiritually than this animated character transforming from an animal to a prince

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

When you don't have this dying and becoming, You are only a sad guest on the dark Earth.

Autumn is Spring turned antique.

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I shall be in them.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains life—and a great transforming energy.

it became a stranger's face—or it made me so guilty to look on him that I wished it were a stranger's face. Not all my memorizing had prepared me for the metamorphosis which my memorizing had helped to bring about.

Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

Am I still the same Alice? Or have I become a better or worse one?""Yes, " was the caterpillar's reply."Yes, to what?""It doesn't matter.

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.