Top 100 Quotes About Butterfly
#1. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.
Frederick Lenz
#2. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.
Gunter Grass
#3. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
#4. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul
Mahmoud Darwish
#5. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#6. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
Ivan Turgenev
#7. There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
Coco Chanel
#8. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
Stefan Emunds
#9. In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
Emily Dickinson
#10. Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
Annie Besant
#11. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Guillermo Del Toro
#12. Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.
Miklos Laszlo
#14. Dose who love deep never grow old ... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.
Arthur Wing Pinero
#15. A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...
Winfield Townley Scott
#16. It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
Georges St-Pierre
#17. Had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was
Douglas Adams
#18. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Paul Saffo
#19. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.
Laura Miller
#20. 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
#21. Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS!
John Green
#22. I have butterflies in my stomach.
Zane
#23. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#24. I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw instead of my mouth. It shimmered there briefly like some iridescent, impossible butterfly.
Alexis Hall
#25. The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.
Joaquin Miller
#26. Forgetting ... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself ... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#27. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Mario Quintana
#28. I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#29. Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.
Patrick Monahan
#30. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.
Mary Alice Monroe
#31. Follow your heart and what it's saying,
after you die, an when you live.
What he/ she lives is what she/he is giving to you .
Enjoy it and you'll be happy.
Love isn't a game ,love is a portrait, of a beautiful butterfly flapping it's wings to the horizon.
Avis
#32. 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
#33. She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
Nikki Rowe
#34. And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.
Wendy Mass
#35. What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
#36. Doesn't anything matter to you?'
'Survival,' I said, but even that sounded untrue now. 'I guess.'
'That's not much.'
I painted a butterfly in Claire's room. Swallowtail. Another, cabbage white. 'I haven't gotten any farther than that.
Janet Fitch
#37. Thus every dog at last will have his day -
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.
John Wolcot
#38. A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air - eventually capable of starting a hurricane on the other side of the planet.
Andy Andrews
#39. If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.
Tama J. Kieves
#40. In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
Mahmoud Darwish
#41. ...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.
Inio Asano
#42. I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#43. Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
Roger Tory Peterson
#44. The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
Aaron Rodgers
#45. The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, white and uncrumpled. Skinny Wilma flaps her handkerchief. The cabbage white flies through her forehead and into her head.
Herta Muller
#46. One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
Hans Christian Andersen
#47. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao-Tzu
#48. I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.
Daryl Hannah
#49. Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.
Paris Hilton
#50. Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
Willie Stargell
#51. Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
Claude Simon
#52. Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.
Peter S. Beagle
#53. For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt's deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.
Bryce Dessner
#54. I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.
Marie Lu
#55. We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
Drew Bundini Brown
#56. Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.
Steve Bull
#57. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's
Erotic Storm
#58. That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
Herman Melville
#59. Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails.
Vinita Kinra
#60. I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#61. Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.
And dreamed of paradise.
Coldplay
#62. On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
Claude Debussy
#63. Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.
Roger Tory Peterson
#64. This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad
#65. To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#66. Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
Jimi Hendrix
#70. There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.
Stephen Curry
#73. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.
Ellen Hopkins
#74. Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly ...
Maria Housden
#75. I like you ... "I got up on my toes to get in his face, "a lot".
"You haven't made that a secret."
"Maybe I should start doing that," I retorted ...
"Butterfly, advice. Don't start playin' new games when you're already winnin' the one you're in.
Kristen Ashley
#76. 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
#77. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#78. You look like a butterfly that's just flown in from the garden, Hunt said softly.
Lisa Kleypas
#79. Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
BD Wong
#80. 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
#81. I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.
Rumi
#82. Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
Amy Lowell
#83. Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.
Debasish Mridha
#84. She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
Geraldine Brooks
#85. Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Carl Sandburg
#86. Are you ... " "Lovers? Yes, occasionally," Diana said calmly. I blushed. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Are you mad at me?" "Why? Am I jealous? No. I love the butterfly. That doesn't make me jealous of the flowers.
Mark Henwick
#87. Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.
Pauline Fisk
#88. Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
Johnny Rich
#89. A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often.
Michael Davidow
#90. He said to me that we belonged toghether because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that Flower and Butterfly need each other to survive
Gemma Malley
#91. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
Ellen Hopkins
#92. Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope
#93. Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age
the only perfectly beautiful things on earth
joyous, innocent, half divine
useless, say they who are wiser than God.
Ouida
#94. Dream is like a butterfly. You have to chase it to discover worlds you never knew existed.
Vinita Kinra
#95. The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.
Suzy Kassem
#96. Beauty is where the beheld butterfly
disappears from sight.
R.H. Peat
#97. People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive.
Tanya Huff
#98. Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
Dana Burnet
#99. We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
Max Lucado
#100. 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
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