Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation — Vladimir Nabokov
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning… — Lisa Genova
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
I am a happy camper so I guess Iâ€™m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it… — Henry David Thoreau
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. — Ellen DeGeneres
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends... — Freddie Mercury
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in… — Haruki Murakami
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the… — Eric Carle
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. — Roberto Bolano
Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever… — Julie James
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm… — Toni Morrison
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?… — Toni Morrison
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that… — Roland Barthes
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. — Carl Sagan
At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black… — Francesca Lia Block

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