The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms… — William James Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly;… — Juliette Adam Copy Share Image
You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? — Max Muller Copy Share Image
It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record,… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure what desire looked like, but right now, looking at Oscar, I had a feeling desire was staring directly at… — Michel Prince Copy Share Image
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image