Metamorphosis Quotes

81 Metamorphosis quotes by 76 unique authors

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. — Andre Gide
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses. — Jack Kemp
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine… — Soren Kierkegaard
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. — Margaret Mead
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival… — Camille Paglia
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot… — Salman Rushdie
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. — Calvin Trillin
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a… — Martha Beck
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock. — Peter S. Beagle
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails… — Roberto Bolano
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses… — Jean-Paul Sartre
She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a… — Betty Neels
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it… — Suzanne Collins
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts. — Catherynne M. Valente
What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new… — Michael Grant
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the… — Franz Kafka
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It… — David Malouf
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner
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… — Henry Miller
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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