Butterfly Quotes and Sayings

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

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

Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring’st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart.
- William Wordsworth

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

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

The writer’s pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies.
- Paul Carvel

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

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

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

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

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

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

It’s so bizarre, I’m not scared of snakes or spiders. But I’m scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird.
- Nicole Kidman

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

And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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