Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and… — Jeanette Winterson
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.… — Jerry Spinelli
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesnâ€™t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars… — Brian Selznick
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to… — Sloane Crosley
Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and… — SaigyÅ
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie… — Sloane Crosley
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care â€”… — Emily Dickinson
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynastyâ€”and, by which definition, a philosopherâ€”dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… — Tom Stoppard
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her… — Laurie Halse Anderson
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded… — Harold Brodkey
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. — Alice Hoffman
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. — Tom Robbins
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of… — Vita Sackville-West
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the… — Eric Metaxas

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