Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard
Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
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.
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.
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.
I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.
Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.
All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.
I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.
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.
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
I'm not really involved with politics. . . I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.
When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.
