Metamorphosis Quotes - Page 3

• Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Camels, Three

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

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• 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, Overtaking, Instant

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press

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• There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

  R.A. Dickey

  Artist, Craftsman, Steady

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• Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.

  Joseph Beuys

  Circles, Creative, Would Be

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• I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Monsters, Too Late, Way

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• One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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• 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.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

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• For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Real, Long, World

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• The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Christian, Grief

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• 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, Moving, Past

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Cities, Order

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Snakes, Wings

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• It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Feelings, Paradise

  "Transformation of Evil". Book by Debra Redman, p. 119, January 4, 2010.

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Change, Real, Character

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Bullying, Kids

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.

  George Carlin

  Writing, Years, Two

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• Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.

  Marc Hauser

  Animal, Thinking, Emotion

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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  Jack Kemp

  Feet, Would Be, Fool

  "In New Role, Kemp Fights With His Past Over Ideology" by B. Drummond Ayres Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1996.

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• You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

  Jason Diamond

  Want, What You Want, Findings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• 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.

  Tom O'Connor

  Self, Personal Transformation, Events

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Practice, People

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, People, Want

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