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Short Metamorphosis Quotes

  • I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. β€” Ernest Rutherford
  • The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. β€” Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
  • I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. β€” Raul Seixas
  • Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis. β€” Manolo Blahnik
  • Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world. β€” Nelly Sachs
  • Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. β€” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis. β€” Mike Markkula
  • He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. β€” Franz Kafka
  • The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. β€” Andre Malraux
  • The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in. β€” Linda Grant

The Metamorphosis Quotes

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. β€” Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time. β€” Maurice Merleau-Ponty

All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei). β€” Viktor Schauberger

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. β€” Marcel Proust

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. β€” Carl Jung

I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!" β€” Mitch Hedberg

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 possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis. β€” Carlos Castaneda

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 one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. β€” Albert Claude

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. β€” Franz Kafka

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . β€” Hans Hofmann

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More Metamorphosis Quotes

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters. β€” Lev S. Vygotsky

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them. β€” Marcel Marceau

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. β€” James Madison

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. β€” Franz Kafka

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis. β€” Henry Miller

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see. β€” Marc Jacobs

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. β€” Henry Miller

There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design. β€” Edgar Allan Poe

"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it. β€” Gregory Orr

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

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 an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche. β€” Carl Jung

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 full-on metamorphosis. β€” Martha Beck

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice. β€” Robin Morgan

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. β€” Franz Kafka

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. β€” Harold Brodkey

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism. β€” James Elkins

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 the same. β€” Isadora Duncan

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 is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis. β€” David Malouf

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. β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine. β€” Emmanuel des Essarts

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge β€” Michel Foucault

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role . β€” Ben Gazzara

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 birth of your new. β€” Tom O'Connor

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. β€” David Cassidy

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis? β€” Paul Valery

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