Quotes About Transformation

Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

I can't go back to yesterday--because I was a different person then.

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' -- but, oh, dear!

How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.

Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same, the next question is Who in the world am I?

in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the rattling teacups would

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Down the Rabbit-Hole

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

No puedo volver al pasado porque entonces era una persona diferente.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

Tanr?m! Bugün her ÅŸey ne tuhaf! Daha dün her ÅŸey kendi olaÄŸan halindeydi. Acaba ben gece mi deÄŸiÅŸtim? Bir düÅŸüneyim: Bu sabah kalkt???mda ben ben miydim? Sanki biraz farkl? gibiydim, ama ben ayn? ben deÄŸilsem, o zaman yahu ben kimim? Ä°ÅŸte as?l bilmece bu!

Come up again, dear! I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else--but

Quién soy yo, primero? Contéstenme, y luego, si me gusta ser esa persona, subiré, si no, me quedaré aquí abajo hasta que sea otra...

altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out

and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself 'That's quite enough—I hope I shan't grow any more—As it is, I can't get out at the door—I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much!

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I— I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Pero qué cosas extrañas pasan hoy! Y ayer todo sucedía como es usual. Me pregunto si cambié durante la noche. Déjame pensar, ¿era yo la misma cuando me levanté esta mañana? Creo recordar que me sentía un poco diferente. Pero si no soy la misma, la siguiente pregunta es, ¿quién de todo el mundo soy yo? ¡Ah, ese si que es un gran enigma!

If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -

at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Yo, señor, en realidad no sé quién soy en este momento, aunque esta mañana lo sabía muy bien cuando me levanté, ¡pero he cambiado tantas veces desde entonces!

I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!

Quién eres tú? —dijo la Oruga. (...) —Apenas sé, señora, lo que soy en este momento... Sí sé quién era al levantarme esta mañana, pero creo que he cambiado varias veces desde entonces.