Metamorphosis Quotes

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

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • World
  • Homeland
  • Metamorphosis

• 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.

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Extraordinary
  • Metamorphosis

• I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.

  

  Raul Seixas
  • Opinion
  • Walking
  • Metamorphosis

• 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.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Discovery
  • Metamorphosis
  • Wedding Night

• What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Philosopher
  • Metamorphosis

• 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.

  

  David Malouf
  • Power
  • Creation
  • Transformation

• Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Profound
  • Acts
  • Metamorphosis

• Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Extraordinary
  • Finals
  • Crystals

• 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 way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Admit

• Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Human Life
  • Metamorphosis
  • Giving And Receiving

• When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.

  

  Bernard Parmegiani
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Movements

• Once the frontiers of horror have been crossed, one will pass from form to form beyond the human and from metamorphosis to metamorphosis to accomplish, in the anguish of an impossible return, the most terrible journey to the depths of darkness.

  

  Georges Limbour
  • Form
  • Horror
  • Metamorphosis

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

  

  Andre Malraux
  • World
  • Art
  • Immortality

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

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Unexpected
  • Chemist
  • Metamorphosis

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

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Photograph
  • Destroys
  • Metamorphosis

• A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Man
  • Blind
  • Awareness

• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Children
  • Past
  • Kind