Chrysalis Quotes

• Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Flower, Mean, Devil

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• La gran soledad, como la soledad que sufre una oruga cuando se envuelve en una sedosa mortaja y comienza la larga transformación de crisálida en mariposa. Parece que nosotros también debemos pasar por un momento así, cuando la vida tal y como la hemos conocido se acaba, cuando ser una oruga se siente de alguna manera falso y, sin embargo, no sabemos en quién se supone que debemos convertirnos. Lo único que sabemos es que algo más grande nos llama a cambiar. Y aunque tengamos que hacer el viaje solos, y aunque el sufrimiento sea nuestro único compañero, pronto nos convertiremos en mariposa, pronto saborearemos el éxtasis de estar vivos.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Vida, Cambio, Soledad

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• Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

  Max Muller

  Butterfly, Dust, Sin

  Max Muller (1912). "Recuerdos"

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• The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Wings, Two

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• Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Eye, Wings, Degrees

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). "Cinq Mars"

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• There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

  Ellen Bass

  Integrity, Butterfly, Growth

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• Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

  Annie Besant

  Butterfly, Men, Snakes

  Annie Besant (2016). “Death and After?”, p.15, BookRix

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• Crees que me estoy empobreciendo al alejarme de los hombres, pero en mi soledad he tejido para mí una red de seda o crisálida, y, como una ninfa, pronto brotará una criatura más perfecta, apta para una sociedad más elevada.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Fall, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Pat Barker

  Butterfly, Cutting, Soul

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• Con una lágrima por el oscuro pasado, nos volvemos hacia el deslumbrante futuro y, velando nuestros ojos, seguimos adelante. El largo y agotador invierno de la carrera ha terminado. Su verano ha comenzado. La humanidad ha roto la crisálida. Los cielos están ante ella.

  Edward Bellamy

  Summer, Eye, Dark

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books

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• Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

  Emme

  Home, Butterfly, Perfect

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• La gran renuncia de la vejez cuando se prepara para la muerte, se envuelve en su crisálida, que puede observarse al final de las vidas que son en absoluto prolongadas, incluso en viejos amantes que han vivido el uno para el otro, en viejos amigos unidos por los lazos más estrechos de la simpatía mutua, que, después de cierto año, dejan de hacer el viaje necesario o incluso de cruzar la calle para verse, dejan de corresponderse, y saben que ya no se comunicarán más en este mundo.

  Marcel Proust

  Viaje, Años, Lazos

  Marcel Proust (2000). "En busca del tiempo perdido, Volumen I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)", p.212, Modern Library

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• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Naturaleza, Escritura, Mariposa

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

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• A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Inanimate Objects, New Life

  Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books

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• La muerte es la apertura de una vida más sutil. En la flor, libera el perfume; en la crisálida, la mariposa; en el hombre, el alma.

  Juliette Adam

  Death, Flower, Butterfly

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• You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Skins, Trying, Cocoons

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• We are gods in the chrysalis.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dale Carnegie (2016). "How to win friends & influence people", p.67, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd.

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• He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

  Ray Bradbury

  Skeletons, Waiting, Philosopher

  Ray Bradbury (1980). "The Stories of Ray Bradbury", Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

  William James

  Wall, Cost, Alive

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

  Randall Robinson

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Entrevista con Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 26 de septiembre de 2005.

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• the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

  Harold Brodkey

  Spring, Butterfly, Wind

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• This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Beautiful, Independent, Years

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• And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Butterfly, Wings

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• En ese momento, el Dr. Lecter se dio cuenta de que, a pesar de todos sus conocimientos y su intromisión, nunca podría predecirla por completo, ni poseerla en absoluto. Podía alimentar a la oruga, podía susurrar a través de la crisálida; lo que salía del cascarón seguía su propia naturaleza y estaba fuera de su alcance. Se preguntó si llevaría la 45 en la pierna bajo la bata. Clarice Starling le sonrió entonces, los cabujones captaron la luz del fuego y el monstruo se perdió en la autocomplacencia por su propio gusto exquisito y su astucia.

  Thomas Harris

  Congratulations, Self, Monsters

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