Quotes on Metamorphosis

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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.

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

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

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.