Cocoons Quotes

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car they're in this kind of cocoon, stuck in suburban rush hour traffic or something.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

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.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.