Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. — Haruki Murakami
This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men… — Michael Morpurgo
and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. — Ruskin Bond
Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a… — Tristan Tzara
As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A… — Stephen Hawking
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost… — Tabitha Suzuma
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a… — Peter S. Beagle
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. — Glen Duncan
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the… — Susanna Kearsley
17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of… — Greg Behrendt
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements,… — Neil Gaiman
Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end… — Stephen Colbert
I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies… — Og Mandino
Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other "eps… — Simone Elkeles
A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. — Lisa Kleypas
Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf! — Laini Taylor
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. — Charles Dickens
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar? — Cornelia Funke
You can only chase a butterfly for so long. — Jane Yolen
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were… — Hermann Hesse
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”,… — Brennan Manning
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods — Edith Wharton
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. — George Eliot
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. — Madeleine L'Engle

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