Quotes About Metamorphosis

Fainting with heat, he suddenly found himself in the cold, cold river. He had turned into a fish. Tail, body, fins - everything was fishlike, except the head, which was his own and still ached. He swam through the muted, cool, underwater darkness and thought that now he would remain a fish forever and never go back to the moutains. "I won't return," he said to himself. "It's better to be a fish, it's better to be a fish...

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain— because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering. All impurities fall away from gold only when it's heated to melting.

Things are breaking down inside of her. She waits to see if she can build new, satisfying shapes from them.

You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.

auma change in Liz, denoting that she is the equivalent of pregnant ("eggnant"?) because of the kindling of the bronze egg by Zanna.

What I had done to Jesse, well, that was something else. In a way, it's like I was burying my old self in that pit. The person that I'd been before I'd looked into a man's eyes and shot him dead. The person that I was now, the delicate newborn killer that Jesse made me, needed the slow thoughtless shoveling like an insect still wet from metamorphosis needs time to dry its wings and figure out how to work its brand new form.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then

No, I am Dorothy now.

My own awakening feels as momentous. I too am blanketed, my harsh edges obscured and transformed.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

The serious readers are usually people who have swerved off course in their own first acts—who have gone through major changes in their lives.

Justine couldn't see herself, but suddenly she felt as though she had a waist, a bosom, a long neck, slim wrists. She felt like a different person.

Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.

It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.

I'd turned myself into a hawk – taken all the traits of goshawks in the books and made them my own.

Lily's eye transformed places. She looked at structures and they turned inside out and offered her their desolate jigsaw patterns. Once

To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.

Non c'è nulla che possiamo ritrovare nel modo in cui lo abbiamo lasciato.Il tempo non si arresta e cambia le cose.

All appears to change when we change.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

I used to be svelte but with age I have svelled.

To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of satisfaction with a theory of the world, not even a place of reformation, nor of some illusory transformation of the conditions of this world. It aims for self- transformation, for the inner metamorphosis which is implied by the notion of a new, or spiritual rebirth.... The adventure of the mystical philosopher is essentially seen as a voyage which progresses towards the Light.

He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.

How can the New Life deliver itself from the still-persistent past? A ready solution of the difficulty would be TO DIE. . . . If we cannot die altogether, . . . the most we can do is to die as much as we can. . . . To die to any environment is to withdraw correspondence with it, to cut ourselves off, so far as possible, from all communication with it. So that the solution of the problem will simply be this, for the spiritual life to reverse continuously the processes of the natural life.