Top 100 Quotes About Butterflies
#1. Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted.
"No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies.
Stephenie Meyer
#2. When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.
Daniel Tosh
#3. I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.
Kristin Cavallari
#4. Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn't give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
I'm talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs
George Watsky
#5. ...a cyclamen that looks like a flight of butterflies, frozen for a single, exquisite moment in the white heart of Time...
Beverley Nichols
#6. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#7. If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.
Spencer Wells
#8. My pulse is buzzing and my stomach is a riot of butterflies and half-digested peanut butter cookies.
Autumn Doughton
#9. No lies, remember? I'm dead fucking serious here. I am like, head over friggin' heels, butterflies and puppies, hearts and fucking kitty cats in love with you.
C.M. Stunich
#10. We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
#11. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
M.J. Rose
#12. I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
Joni Mitchell
#13. As she sang, she saw the notes float out of her mouth like little butterflies, carrying some of her sadness away, and she knew, finally, that she would survive it. - Soon
Yaa Gyasi
#14. My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.
Edward M. Hallowell
#15. No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, ... No road, no street, no t' other side the way, ... No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.
Thomas Hood
#16. I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
Kenneth P. Thompson
#17. When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy
Charlotte Bronte
#18. Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.
Mary Alice Monroe
#19. I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
Ellen Hopkins
#20. On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ... a swarm of ... small, blue butterflies drinking the water. ... I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday.
Hermann Hesse
#21. The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
A. Zavarelli
#22. She told me once that every time she saw my name on her caller I.D. she got butterflies. I got this swelling ache in my chest. It was a good ache - like a heart orgasm.
Tarryn Fisher
#23. He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her [ ... ] Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies.
Sarah Hall
#24. I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
Josh Groban
#25. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.
Trina Paulus
#26. A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#28. Never live in the past; were it good to do so, butterflies would crawl back into their cocoons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#30. The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]
Martial
#31. Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
Marcus O'Sullivan
#32. There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumberable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tullips with wings.
Edgar Allan Poe
#33. Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-
Laini Taylor
#34. She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies.
Virginia Woolf
#35. When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.
Roland Barthes
#36. First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!
Marlene Van Niekerk
#37. She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.
Tori Amos
#38. We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.
Malala Yousafzai
#39. Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?
J.K. Rowling
#40. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border
Ruskin Bond
#41. Why does my stomach flutter like it's filled with a thousand butterflies whenever I get near you? And I don't mean when I see you, I mean before I see you, I inquire as I search his face.
Amy A. Bartol
#42. You are immortal; you've existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.
Miguel Ruiz
#43. It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
Francisco Lopez
#44. The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.
Ruth Rudner
#45. Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.
Lina Wertmuller
#46. The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P.G. Wodehouse
#47. With drooping bells of clearest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew
Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
So lightly trembling.
Reginald Heber
#48. My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.
Larry Mize
#50. Dead. things, dead things ... " I said. "Come no closer. Talking of madness and love, in this reeking place! And that old monster, Magnus, locking them up in his dungeon. How did he love them, his captives? The way boys love butterflies when they rip off their wings!
Anne Rice
#51. Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a person yearn for more. It's not something one thinks about, it's something that's felt, involuntarily.
Shelena Shorts
#52. Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds
M.F. Moonzajer
#53. Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies.
J.K. Rowling
#54. I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
Drew Barrymore
#55. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.
Peter Goldsworthy
#56. Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.
George MacDonald
#57. Sometimes I fall back pretty hard on the butterflies and the flowers. What a privilege to have been around for this.
Wendell Berry
#58. I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.
Robert Winston
#59. She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.
Virginia Woolf
#60. I get butterflies just like everyone else. So I meditate for at least ten minutes before I perform. I breathe in and out slowly for ten minutes, and that literally helps me slow my heart rate and relax.
Matthew Moy
#62. Just like that, those butterflies I'd first felt at twelve made a reappearance.
Morgan Matson
#63. I believe in a world where love can still catch you off guard and where the best part is the falling stage. Those shy glances, the racing heart, flushed cheeks, and the butterflies? That's magic.
~Sarah Brocious on More Than Scars
Sarah Brocious
#64. Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.
Harsha Walia
#65. I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.
Manika
#66. To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.
Krystal
#68. As i crawled up the bed to sit beside him, my pterodactyl butterflies somersaulted in my stomach. Good God, he was gorgeous and i was in bed with him.
Katie McGarry
#69. I've got butterflies in my stomach ... because I ate a cocoon quesadilla!
Stephen Colbert
#70. I know I need to put my mouth on those pretty lips and kiss you," he said with so much conviction, it felt like a swarm of butterflies had been let loose in my stomach. "Do you know that, too?
Christina Lee
#71. You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
Damian Lewis
#72. I always thought unicorns were made from sunshine and rainbows and good feelings. Like you just appeared one day in a field filled with flowers and a big fat sunbeam falling all around you. And there'd be butterflies or something. That sounded way pretty. And realistic for unicorn creation.
T.J. Klune
#73. Butterflies are a lot like rainbows: They're phenomenally beautiful in real life, yet no graphic representation can do them justice; ergo, it's best to forgo.
Jen Lancaster
#74. All you butterflies and you ballerinas, dance until you fall. Dream and believe. Follow what you're searching for.
Julian Lennon
#75. My thoughts shock me. There's a desperate heat in the pit of my stomach I wish I could ignore. There are butterflies in my chest I wish I could explain away. There's an ache in my core that I'm unwilling to name.
Beautiful.
He's so beautiful>.
I must be insane.
Tahereh Mafi
#76. In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.
Haruo Shirane
#78. God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home
Srinidhi.R
#79. Words are pretty, useless things - butterflies behind glass. You may feel warm and bright as you stare at their beauty but you'll walk away empty and cold, clutching nothing but the painful realization that you never really had anything at all.
Julie Johnson
#80. One by one, the moths of the night took their release. And she watched them float off like butterflies, silhouetted in the glow of morning.
Ellison Blackburn
#81. Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?
Jessica Hawkins
#82. I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest ... it was hard to say what exactly.
Richelle Mead
#83. You see, he was to become the first man I fell in love with. Only, falling in love doesn't always mean rainbows and butterflies. This is the true story of my life and how love changed everything!
Brenda Novak
#84. Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which, unable to escape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary.
Thomas Hardy
#85. The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.
Louie Schwartzberg
#86. Gut instincts were supposed to be the most trustworthy and it was in her gut where she felt the butterflies. The heart had its purpose as a blood pumping muscle, but love ... love blossomed and sparked through the body - originating from the gut.
Nikki Jefford
#87. We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb.
Trina Paulus
#88. Butterflies in your stomach. More like killer bees.
Kami Garcia
#89. If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
Patricia Velasquez
#90. You are giving me words to write a song and that's even better than butterflies.
Noone
#91. Colton's grin made his dark eyes sparkle, and a flock of butterflies went off in her belly.
This guy could be trouble.
And she'd sworn off that.
Lisa Kessler
#92. Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his.
Simone Elkeles
#93. You'll be my girlfriend?" he asked. Butterflies were throwing a party in my stomach. "If that's what you want."
"I want." Remy grinned.
Veronica Blade
#94. Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures
Elizabeth Goudge
#95. think I just fell in love with butterflies.
Kim Holden
#96. His parents joined the dance of the butterflies.
Helga Zeiner
#97. And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not - they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.
Laini Taylor
#98. The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery. As Archchancellor Ridcully said, you just had to know where the damn butterflies were.
Terry Pratchett
#99. I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
Karlie Kloss
#100. Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.
Brian D'Ambrosio
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