Butterfly Quotes
581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out,…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.
— Wendy Mass
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For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
— Jerry Spinelli
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her…
— Ken Follett
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Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she…
— Nora Roberts
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Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!
— John Flanagan
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Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's…
— Laini Taylor
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
— Muhammad Ali
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And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody,…
— Laini Taylor
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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.†Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly
— Nalini Singh
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Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate
— Matsuo Basho
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April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances
— Matsuo Basho
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Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop…
— Libba Bray
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She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
— Geraldine Brooks
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You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing…
— Francesca Lia Block
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it…
— Ivan Turgenev
Who Wrote These Butterfly Quotes
447 authors contributed a total of 581 Butterfly Quotes, led by these top contributors: