Butterfly Quotes

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“The caterpillar has turned into a butterfly.”

— Aria Grace

The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

— Hilda Doolittle

Happiness is like a butterfly.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

— Alexander Pope

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

— Kiyoshi Takayama

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

— Anne Lamott

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

— Timothy Leary

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

— Paris Hilton

“Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,”

— Marian Phair

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

— George Carlin

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

— Andre Gide

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all”

— Robin Hobb

“It is hard to find a butterfly in the city environment.”

— Joseph Finder

“Even a caterpillar gets to turn into a butterfly. Am I ever gonna be pretty, Daddy?”

— Inglath Cooper

Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter…

— Aquaria

A butterfly is incapable of flight until the struggle to free himself from his cocoon has given his wings the strength he…

— Christopher Abraham

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

— Stephanie Pace Marshall

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

— Pema Chodron

“Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return." "I'm…

— Laini Taylor

Thus every dog at last will have his day - He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow; The grub today's…

— John Wolcot

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire…

— Deborah Harkness

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this…

— Carine Roitfeld

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the…

— Sloane Crosley

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as…

— Herman Melville

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that…

— Taylor Swift

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for…

— Philip Yancey

I've tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That's why you hear people call me a 'hybrid goalie' and say…

— Martin Brodeur

“I so badly wanted to fit into their world. For the longest time, I’ve dreamt about living a life of a social…

— M.A. Abraham

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Purple emperor-watching with Matthew and Neil is not your average butterfly entertainment, ethereal and somewhat effete. Theirs is a raucous, adrenaline-fuelled spectator…

— Isabella Tree

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you…

— Justin Bieber

I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he…

— Sabina Murray

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of…

— Victor Hugo

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting…

— Samantha Hunt

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of…

— Sonya Hartnett

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline…

— John Steinbeck

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation…

— Elizabeth Lesser