Quotes About Transformation

Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay.

Staring at herself for long stretches of time, she was occa­sionally upset at the sight of her mother's features in her face. She would stare all the more doggedly at her image in an attempt to wish them away and keep only what was hers alone. Each time she succeeded was a time of intoxication: her soul would rise to the surface of her body like a crew charging up from the bowels of a ship, spreading out over the deck, waving at the sky and singing in jubilation.

The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow.

La tension dramatique, c'est la véritable malédiction du roman parce qu'elle transforme tout, même les plus belles pages, même les scènes et les observations les plus surprenantes, en une simple étape menant au dénouement final, où se concentre le sens de tout ce qui précède. Dévoré par le feu de sa propre tension, le roman se consume comme une botte de paille

Ningún movimiento que se plantee transformar el mundo soporta la burla ni el desprecio.

Las transformaciones decisivas para el devenir de las relaciones amorosas no siempre suelen deberse a acontecimientos dramáticos sino, con frecuencia, a circunstancias que a primera vista pasan completamente desapercibidas.

J'avais plusieurs visages parce que j'étais jeune et que je ne savais pas moi-même qui j'étais et qui je voulais être.

In this book time thus flows in a tempo opposite that of real life: the tempo slows down as the years go by.

la transformation de la musique en bruit est un processus planétaire qui fait entrer l'humanité dans la phase historique de la laideur totale.

and I felt years, cares, sorrows, thousands of gray scales peeling off me...

L'uomo, spinto dal senso della bellezza, transforma un avvenimento casuale (la musica di Beethoven, una morte alla stazione) in un motivo che va poi a iscriversi nella composizione della sua vita. Ad esso ritorna, lo ripete, lo varia, lo sviluppa, lo traspone, come fa il compositore con i temi della sua sonata.

Cada nueva posibilidad de la existencia, incluso la menos probable, transforma la existencia entera.

Quella tristezza voleva dire: siamo all'ultima stazione. Quella felicità voleva dire: siamo insieme. La tristezza era la forma e la felicità il contenuto. La felicità riempiva lo spazio della tristezza.

Karel had put a mask of Nora on Eva and put a child's mask on himself, and Marketa had removed the head from his body. He was a man's body without a head. Karel disappeared and a miracle occurred: Marketa was free and joyous!

The moment she removed his head from the body, she felt the strange and intoxicating touch of freedom. That anonymity of the body was a suddenly discovered paradise. With an odd delight, she expelled her wounded and too vigilant soul and was transformed into a simple body without past or memory, but all the more eager and receptive. She tenderly caressed Eva's face, while the headless body moved vigorously on top of her.

He looks at Mama out of the corner of his eye, again surprised by how little she is. As if all of her life has been a slow process of shrinkage.

Dramatic tension is the real curse of the novel, because it transforms everything, even the most beautiful pages, even the most surprising scenes and observations merely into steps leading to the final resolution, in which the meaning of everything that preceded is concentrated.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

Sneg je uvek beo, ali je svake godine druga?iji. Tako je i sa ljubavlju. Nije važno koliko je stara, nego da li se menja ili ne. Ako kažeš: moja ljubav je ve? tri godine ista, znaj da ti je ljubav umrla. Ljubav živi samo dok se menja. Kad prestane da se menja, to je kraj.

Change will lead to insight more often than insight will lead to change.

Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.