I Am A Butterfly Quotes

#1. I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.

William Stafford

#2. Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

Zhuangzi

#3. I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses.

Susie Clevenger

#4. I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

Janusz Korczak

#5. The old Chinese sage Chuang-tzu, for example, said: Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang-tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang-tzu.

Jostein Gaarder

#6. I'm almost a hermit and I need people. I can't imagine what it's like for a butterfly like you."
Ethan's mouth twitched and he smiled. "What color butterfly am I?"
Kneeling on the floor, Carter slid into Ethan's arms. "Every color. You're every one.

Ryan Loveless

#7. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali

#8. Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?

Dennis Vickers

#9. I am a flower on the tree we call the universe. My mind is dancing with joy like butterfly.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

Emmet Gowin

#11. I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

Janice Mirikitani

#12. I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Zhuangzi

#13. Does the butterfly lose time in the months it grows from caterpillar to flying beauty? One day, I'm going to want to sleep twelve hours at a stretch and I won't be able to. I'm not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#14. I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

Harry Turtledove

#15. Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?

Zhuangzi

#16. I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.

Annette Thomas

#18. Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

Greg Behrendt

#19. He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose
indeed, he called it his butterfly mind.

Eric Metaxas

#20. You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.

Solange Nicole

#21. I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back.

Laura Miller

#22. More than every once in awhile,
More than most dreams,
More than just my heart,
More than anything,
More than you know,
And more than I can say,
I've loved you more
Every passing day

Laura Miller

#23. I did not seek love with Thomas, but I did not resist it. And now I am trapped in desire like a butterfly with its feet in honey, and the more I struggle, the deeper I sink.

Philippa Gregory

#24. A concrete city creates concrete-people! But what the humanity needs is flower-people, cloud-people, stream-people, butterfly-people, and forest-people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Standing there in the cold wind... I began to doubt if any of it had ever been real. God. The magic box. The talking butterfly. And if that were true, what an empty world this was.

Inio Asano

#26. 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.

Caspar David Friedrich