Chrysalis Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its… — Annie Besant
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,… — Henry David Thoreau
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the… — Juliette Adam
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human… — Ellen Bass
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? — Max Muller
The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,… — Gaston Bachelard
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter… — Edward Bellamy
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential… — Susan Hill
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to… — Elizabeth Lesser
You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away… — Emme
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a… — Pat Barker
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's… — Sharon Salzberg
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? — Alfred de Vigny
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded… — Harold Brodkey
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect… — Ray Bradbury
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond… — D. H. Lawrence
You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You… — Rick Yancey
We are gods in the chrysalis. — Dale Carnegie

Who Wrote These Chrysalis Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 23 Chrysalis Quotes as follows: