What do you think of this quote?

@Percy9  I also agree with @PineTreeTree. To me also, it seems to suggest that personal growth or transformation often requires breaking free from the confines of what we know. The "egg" represents the familiar, safe world we've been in—our comfort zone or the limits of our past beliefs. To "be born" into something new, we have to challenge and destroy the old version of ourselves or the world around us that holds us back. Afterall, that is the central theme of Demian.  This quote also resonates deeply with Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse as well. Andy Weir's The Egg takes this to a whole new level, where the idea of breaking free is expanded to a more cosmic and spiritual scale, showing that the "egg" isn't just a personal barrier, but a universal cycle of life - reincarnation and stuff.

@Percy9

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.

Well, being both a fan of Tokyo Ghoul and Herman Hesse, I definitely have seen this quote before and I love it! It's so powerful and it just gets me every time. I see it in the context of a bildungsroman, like Demian and to a certain extent, like the story of Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. It's about growing up and struggling to grow and change in a world that wants to keep you caged in a certain way- it's about learning and fighting your way to a truer world and a truer self. That's at least how I see it.