“The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.” Has BeensEarthDiesUniverseBornGriefGrievingLife And DeathTransformedButterflyCaterpillarsGrieving A Death Author:John Harricharan
“I would like to die as I have lived disappear among the tundra winds be transformed into birdsong” DiesWindDisappearTransformedBirdsong Author:Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
“The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.” EarthDiesStarsAtomsTransformed Book:The Life History of a Star Source: The Life History of a Star
“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.” MenWorldWayArtDifferentChristianFormUsedDiesIndividualNaturalModernCallingDiedTransformationFacultyIndividualismTransformedConquestNatural WorldPietyRenaissanceOutside WorldGreat ChristianChristian Art Author:Andre Malraux
“When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.” DoeDiesAtomsTransformedCapricious Author:Ingmar Bergman