Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 447 authors

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox. — Willie Stargell
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Laurie Lee
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it… — Giacomo Puccini
I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly,… — Gillian Flynn
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. — Clarice Lispector
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. — Giorgio de Chirico
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to… — Elizabeth Lesser
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice… — Michael Beckwith
And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and… — Lindsey Kelk
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive… — Alexey Brodovitch
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that… — Lloyd C. Douglas
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most… — Henry Walter Bates
Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and… — Neil Gaiman
Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly? — Haruki Murakami
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew. — Lynn Redgrave
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents… — Robert Frost
She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his… — Edith Wharton

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