92 Quotes About Metamorphosis

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.Just like I am now.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

If we can’t see it, we cannot change it.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

Forgiveness purifies our soul. It can transform our trapped negative energies of violence into the positive energies of love. As fasting activates autophagy and heals our body, forgiveness activates auto-metamorphosis and heals our soul.

As fasting activates autophagy and heals our body, forgiveness activates auto-metamorphosis and heals our soul.

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.