Metamorphosis Quotes

81 Metamorphosis quotes by 76 unique authors

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it… — Carlos Castaneda
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence… — Hugh Miller
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… — Hugh Miller
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some… — Octavio Paz
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained… — Albert Claude
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly… — Isadora Duncan
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate… — Carl Jung
He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the… — George Steiner
But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What… — Tom Robbins
There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"… — Edgar Allan Poe
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. — Marcus Aurelius
I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been… — Joyce Tenneson
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis,… — Cristina Saralegui
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly… — Frederick Lenz
Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually… — Paul Davies
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those… — Harold Rosenberg
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those… — Harold Rosenberg
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies. — David Cassidy
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are… — Tom Waits
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the… — Tom O'Connor
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role . — Ben Gazzara
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. — John W. Gardner

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