Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind… — Dante Alighieri
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. — Jimi Hendrix
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least… — Edith Wharton
She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar,… — Sonya Hartnett
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life… — Alan Lightman
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! — Ludwig Wittgenstein
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. — Shannon Hale
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever. — Philip Pullman
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We… — Jostein Gaarder
Of course itâ€™s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… — Clive Barker
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. — Vladimir Nabokov
Butterflies are self propelled flowers. — Robert A. Heinlein
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms… — Erich Maria Remarque
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. — George Sand
he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly. — Ellen Hopkins

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