Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Franco Harris

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it’ll crush. Hold it too loose, it’ll fly.

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Anton Chekhov

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
Charles Gounod

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Robert Wyatt

I’ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead, they demand ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?’ Only from.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies.
Patricia Velasquez

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P.G. Wodehouse

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Anderson

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
R.H. Heinlein

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
Attributed to George Carlin

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
Mariah Carey

The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.
Paul Erlich

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one’s attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Marianne Moore

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.
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I also had this artist friend who’d paint butterflies and things like that on my head.
Persis Khambatta

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
Brendan Gill

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge

What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marston

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It’s a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
Karl Kraus

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.
Jeffrey Glassberg

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

And what’s a butterfly? At best,
He’s but a caterpillar, at rest.
John Grey

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I’ll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
Josh Groban

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
Herman Hesse

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Po

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.
Deborah Chaskin

Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.
Billy Elmer

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick.
Steve Bull

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Chuang Tzu