Butterfly Quotes · Page 5

“You are immortal; you’ve existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are…

— Anonymous

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

— Richard Bach

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

— Edith Wharton

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion…

— Andrea Bocelli

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

— Lauren Oliver

I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my…

— Jacob August Riis

We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening…

— Rajneesh

The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop,…

— Shailene Woodley

“In order to butterfly kiss, does it require caterpillar lips?”

— Josh Stern

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly…

— Zhuangzi

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which…

— Winston Churchill

I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had…

— Dick Van Dyke

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

— Lynn Redgrave

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

— William Butler Yeats

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

— Thomas Hood

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

— Harry Turtledove

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated…

— Rose Leslie

“Butterfly There is beauty both inside and outside of the cocoon that pushed you to grow Through darkness and dysfunction, depth and…

— Christine Evangelou

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

— Lisa Genova

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never…

— Pia Zadora

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little…

— George Vaillant

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

— Heinrich Heine

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

— Candace Bushnell