Quotes About Metamorphosis

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

Change and everything will change for you.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Change is the very nature of nature.

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

No reality transforms itself.

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

My past thoughts created today's me.

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions.

You can never die. With death, you transform and transcend.