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Quotes About Transformation

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.
~ Franz Bardon
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
~ Keanu Reeves
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Death Makes Angels of us all.
~ Jim Morrison
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.
~ Irving Kristol
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
~ William S. Burroughs
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
~ Edgar Cayce
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.
~ Soseki Natsume
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
~ Howard Schultz
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.
~ Philip Kapleau
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
~ Cornel West
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
~ Lucretius
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
~ Octavio Paz
Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.
~ Karel Capek
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
~ Henry David Thoreau