Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 447 authors

The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The… — Densey Clyne
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become… — Robert Wyatt
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? — Max Muller
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly — Andre Gide
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness… — Hermann Hesse
I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after… — Damien Hirst
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a… — Gene Wilder
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. — Elizabeth Goudge
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. — Rabindranath Tagore
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died. — Philip Larkin
If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route! — Claire Williams
If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings! — Claire Williams
Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Unknown Author
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,… — Unknown Author
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain... — Unknown Author
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. — Marianne Moore
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. — Mary Russell Mitford
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? — Dante Alighieri
I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

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