Quotes About Transformation

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

Mindst tænkte jeg da paa, at mit Livs alvorligste eventyr skulde begynde, at en Begivenhed, der engang havde beskæjftiget mig saa levende og stærk, det tabte Frøkorn, glemt og uset, nu vilde vise sig, som en grøn, duftende Væxt, der slyngede sig fast om mit eget Livstræ.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

Den lille havfrue måtte tænke på den første gang hun dykkede op af havet og så den samme pragt og glæde, og hun hvirvlede sig med i dansen, svævede, som svalen svæver når den forfølges, og alle tiljublede hende beundring, aldrig havde hun danset så herligt; det skar som skarpe knive i de fine fødder, men hun følte det ikke; det skar hende smerteligere i hjertet.

If I shut my eyes it returns: the evocation of a whole wood, a whole world of wood-darkness and flowers and birds and late summer silence, of a million leaves turning mellowly to death. It becomes then more than the mere memory of a wood, the first and the best wood I have ever known. It is the redistillation of another and more lovely world.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

This man bore no resemblance to the bearded, grizzled Akeley of the snapshot; but was a younger and more urban person, fashionably dressed, and wearing only a small, dark moustache.

The face beside me was twisted almost unrecognisably for a moment, while through the whole body there passed a shivering motion—as if all the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and glands were readjusting themselves to a radically different posture, set of stresses, and general personality.

relapsing into a bovine, half-amiable normality like that of the other hill-dwellers.

and the grey turned to roseal light edged with gold.

The change happened whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous.

He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little to shed the corpulence which had so long deformed him.

when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

I have often been asked how I felt when I first found myself on free soil," he wrote later. The answer was simple yet profound. "A new world had opened upon me," he said. "I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life.

One Eye slid down from the tree, and Three Eyes climbed up. But Three Eyes

Dear brother, do not drink, she began; but she was too late, for her brother had already knelt by the stream to drink, and as the first drop of water touched his lips he became a fawn. How the little sister wept over the enchanted brother

Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.

Mutual transformation is rare, as good things are. In my view, a person should live as they wish until they find someone they want to be faithful to. After all, as you say, one can't suck oneself off.

One day everything changed. In the morning things were one way and by bedtime another. I was seventeen.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the crime of Judaism into the fashionable vice of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.