Quotes About Metamorphosis

Do you think people can change?" I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

Children have it all over adults, possessing magical powers of imagination. Then they grow into cynical tall people. That's the whole problem with the human race: reverse metamorphosis. We turn from butterflies into caterpillars. The key to keeping your wings is regular exercise of your kindergarten muscles of make-believe.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsprings for watches, thus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold?

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Human beings remain grubs all the lives.

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Their young go through a helpless grub stage, too, which lasts longer than some of them think.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

Para dónde se va la oscuridad cuando sale el sol? Para ninguna parte, se convierte en luz.

This quote is from a Constance O'day Flannery book never fear dying it is simply falling asleep in one world and waking up in another

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

A mark is just a symbol, and symbols can change.

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

It is difficult for gods to walk the earth without taking the forms of beasts.

Explosive bifurcation is the sudden transition that wrenches the system out of one order, and into another.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things from Leaves of Grass

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.