Things Butterflies Quotes

#1. 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

#2. His eyelids fluttered. (Only eyelids do that. And butterflies.)

Rainbow Rowell

#3. Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Laurie Lee

#4. 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

#5. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

Jimi Hendrix

#6. I love it when the snowflakes are flying like butterflies.

Chris Bohjalian

#7. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. ...but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. Reading is much more than a colorful thought.
It is a Gift

Nancy Schroeder

#10. His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.

H. L. Balcomb

#11. I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.

Tony Bennett

#12. This flesh in which we live is nothing more than a cocoon, and only when we step out of it do we truly begin to live.

Nancy Stephan

#13. I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

Edwidge Danticat

#14. 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

#15. World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire

Nelly Sachs

#16. Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#17. and I thought how fucking unfair it was that he made us butterflies, of all things. Real butterflies could fly away, out of reach. The Gardener's Butterflies could only ever fall, and that but rarely.

Dot Hutchison

#18. She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

Lauren Myracle

#19. Because a kiss should be born from love, and want, and need. A kiss should be beautiful, something a girl can hold on to for the rest of her life, to pull out in her memory whenever she wants butterflies to come back.

Heather Lyons

#20. People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third

Alexander Boldizar

#21. Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,

Robert A. Heinlein

#22. The things this man does to me are beyond what I feel should be possible. Butterflies. Fucking butterflies. Damn him.

Dennis Sharpe

#23. They're butterflies because ... well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans.

Katsura Hoshino

#24. I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

Charles Baudelaire

#25. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

William Beebe

#26. When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Sue Monk Kidd

#27. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

George Orwell

#28. Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

Tristan Tzara

#29. If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

Wendy Mass

#30. The dog wags its tail only at living things.
A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

Jean Craighead George

#31. I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame.

Neil Gaiman

#32. she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimony. She would be pinned, like the museum butterflies. He would remain free to flutter.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#33. Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Alice Hoffman

#34. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border

Ruskin Bond

#35. 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

#36. Two came here, Two flew off, - Butterflies. Chora3 In this verse, the ordinary poetical meaning is discarded; what remains is that dark flame of life that burns in all things. It is seen with the belly, not with the eye; with "bowels of compassion.

R.H. Blyth

#37. I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

Cillian Murphy

#38. I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

Nicole Kidman

#39. But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.

Jacqueline Woodson

#40. I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Persis Khambatta

#41. 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

#42. A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...

Winfield Townley Scott

#43. 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

#44. I have butterflies in my stomach.

Zane

#45. We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

#46. My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.

Holly Bodger

#47. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.

Laura Miller

#48. From the moment I said it, I could feel the butterflies in my stomach. My Ryder instincts and my Ryder conscience needed to get it together. One refused to let me back down, while the other condemned my actions in not doing so.

Hollow Ryan

#49. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

#50. I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Jennifer Aniston

#51. They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and air.

Lauren Oliver

#52. All those stories I've told you are as delicate as butterflies.

Arnold Arre

#53. This morning I had these fluttery butterflies in my stomach that were making me feel SUPERnauseous

Rachel Renee Russell

#54. How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

Kiyoshi Takayama

#55. 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

#56. He'd promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He'd said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had to know for sure.

Inger Iversen

#57. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

Debasish Mridha

#58. What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.

Laurie Brown

#59. So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?"
Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?"
Asa looked at him sideways. "Do you promise to fly back?

Amy Lane

#60. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

#61. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Gunter Grass

#62. 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

#63. He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

Dorothy Koomson

#64. 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

#65. I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Brendan Gill

#66. Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Claude Simon

#67. And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.

Arundhati Roy

#68. Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Paris Hilton

#69. Butterflies??? Naah.. I feel the whole zoo inside me when I see you..

Himmilicious

#70. 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

#71. It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers

Trina Paulus

#72. 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

#73. Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

John Muir

#74. It's not always rainbows and butterflies. It's compromise that moves us along.

Maroon 5

#75. a cloud of black-and-orange butterflies for the Mullendores.

George R R Martin

#76. She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.

Patricia O'Sullivan

#77. Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!" I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. "We are serious people doing serious things! I don't have time for butterflies!

Kim Harrison

#78. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.

Mary Alice Monroe

#79. Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

#80. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

Mario Quintana