Franz Kafka
Writer
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
Metamorphosis quotes
Metamorphosis
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"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."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"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."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"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."
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"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."
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"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."
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"The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in."
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