Quotes About Transformation

when will we open them again our eyes, this must all be from the world of shut eyes, one's temples feel the cold, maybe one is inside a seashell, one is what another force is hearing—how lovely, we are being handed over to another force, listen, put this to your ear—the last river we know loses its form, widens, as if a foot were lifted from the dancefloor but not put down again, ever…

Always breathing-in this pre-life, exhaling this post. Something goes away, something comes back. But through you. Leaving no trail but self. As trails go not much of one. But patiently you travel it. Your self.

It was still quite motionless and he felt it with his fingers; it was dead. Accustomed, no doubt, to an uneventful existence, to a humble life spent beneath its poor carapace, it had not been able to bear the dazzling splendor thrust upon it, the glittering cope in which it had been garbed, the gems with which its back had been encrusted, like a ciborium.

In attempting to fan her flame I kindled myself

Los árboles ya no crecerían desde su voz. Hoy, ella dejaría de ser todo el paisaje y toda la ciudad, para ser sólo otro individuo en la ciudad y otra mancha en el paisaje.

cae demasiado rápido la sangre, cortarla un poco más, más, y me comienzo a entibiar, a enfriar, a helar, soy este trozo de hielo que gotea y gotea, gotea mi nariz y gotean mis manos y mis pies, un trozo de hielo que se está disolviendo y no queda nada.

The natural cloud of dust that must rise when our terrible casing of chains falls to the ground.

Uç, küçük kuÅŸum. Ä°yice yükseklere uç. En yukar?lara ç?k ve Tanr?'n?n parma??na kon. Tanr? seni baÅŸka bir çocuÄŸa götürecek ve nas?l bana güzel ÅŸark?lar ÅŸak?d?ysan ona da ÅŸak?yacaks?n. HoÅŸça kal güzel kuÅŸum!...' Ä°çimde sonsuz bir boÅŸluk hissettim.

Matar no quiere decir que uno tome el revólver de Buck Jones y haga ¡bum! No es eso. Uno lo mata en el corazón. Va dejando de querer. Y un buen día la persona muere.

Romper la continuidad com el pasado, querer comenzar de nuevo, es apirar a descender y plagiar al orangután.

es, de fantasía, y aún hay que añadir, de una fantasía mudadiza que hoy imagina un mundo físico distinto del de ayer y mañana imaginará otro distinto del de hoy.

To remain in the past means to be dead.

Los actos que al principio provocaban pudor, acaban por parecen naturales; el ojo percibe los tonos violentos como simples matices, el oído escucha las mentiras con igual respeto que las verdades, el corazón aprende a no agitarse por torpes acciones.

se a gente segue assim, para trás ou para a frente, vê que não pode se partir o fio da vida, mesmo que está podre nalgum lado, ele sempre se emenda noutro sítio, cresce, desvia, foge, avança, curva, pára, esconde, aparece...

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Ang dalisay na hanging ito at ang mga batong itong napakalilinis ay mapupuno ng karbon, ng mga kahon at bariles, ng mga bunga ng sipag ng tao.

Native gods, called anitos, were often not abandoned, but instead were transformed into saints and were often venerated in small chapels attached to private homes.

Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.

Su amor me torna en otro hombre regenerando mi ser, y ella puede hacer un ángel de quien un demonio fue.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Todo es hermoso y constante, Todo es música y razón, Y todo, como el diamante, Antes que luz es carbón.

The alchemy of time transforms everything into comedy. Everything. Even crucifixion.

Como dijo Gustav Schmoller, «la revolución puede evitarse siempre con las reformas oportunas».

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.