Accepting Quote by Frank Herbert

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

— Karen Marie Moning

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees…

— D. H. Lawrence

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

— Khalil Gibran

“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of…

— Tony Kushner

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

— William C. Bryant

“A serpent never returns to its molted skin.”

— Jason Versey

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

— Gautama Buddha

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

— Anonymous

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

— Khaled Hosseini