Butterfly Quotes and Sayings

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

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

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
- Vita Sackville West

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

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

I like it’s not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
- Gene Wilder

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

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

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

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

I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
- Philip Larkin

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

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

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds.
- Thomas Hood

The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry:  deeper motives contribute to it.  We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.
- Primo Levi

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

The gold-barr’d butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander’d and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.
- Joaquin Miller

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

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