Metamorphosis Quotations

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.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

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 who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

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

Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.