Annie Besant

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.

English Philosopher

Sharon Salzberg

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.

American Author

Eric Idle

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

English Comedian

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

Irish Actor

Max Muller

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

German Educator

Paul Young

Chrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren't doing much for our careers.

English Singer

Alfred de Vigny

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

French Poet

Chrysalis specifically refers to the stage where insects change, not the creature itself.

Insect Transformation

Chrysalis implies safety for the insect during its vulnerable transformation period.

Protection Phase

Chrysalis can be used to metaphorically describe a process of significant change.

Metamorphosis Reference

In a figurative sense, 'chrysalis' describes a transformative period in someone's personal development.

Metaphor for Change

When used figuratively, 'chrysalis' can imply personal growth or the development of skills.

Personal Growth

The word suggests that the change happens over a period of time, not suddenly.

Not Instantaneous

 difficult things to say I think it depends on different areas I would imagine that some areas there's a lot more predation then there is in other zone I mean if you look at out here there's going to be huge amounts of animals it'll predates on poor little caterpillars that are going into a chrysalis to start kind of hatching so I

Safari Live - Day 125 PIPE...

 I was aware of everything, just like any normal person. I could see and understand everything, but I couldn't find a way to let anybody know. My personality was entombed within a seemingly silent body, a vibrant mind hidden in plain sight within a chrysalis.

How My Mind Came Back to...

 a leaf comes to life a brimstone the butter-colored fly that may have given all butterflies her name and the changing color of a speckled wood chrysalis