Hand holding Quote by Marina Warner

“But sometimes, when you have to change, the metamorphosis is so profound, that the old you can’t look the new you in the eyes.…

— K. Larsen

“we are tempted to erase the unsettling elements of the other's alterity-the ways in which the other does not coincide with our fantasies-because we…

— Mari Ruti

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of…

— Orson Scott Card

“Change in society, social change, routinizes a key concept in sociology. Everyone knows what it means. Change brings a characteristic future of modernity into…

— Ulrich Beck

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

— Julia Ward Howe

“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and…

— Ashim Shanker

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a…

— Louie Schwartzberg

“Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our…

— Harold Rosenberg

“We were evolving with different needs. I needed to explore beyond myself and Robert needed to search within himself. He explored the vocabulary of…

— Patti Smith

“I have a burning desire—an inner flame that will not be extinguished by outer forces—to know and live from higher regions, to be transformed…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it…

— Leo Bersani