Quotes on butterflies
Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
Unknown, Author
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Sagan, Carl
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Wharton, Edith
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
Heinlein, Robert
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
Unknown, Author
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Anderson, Hans Christian
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Goudge, Elizabeth
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Tagore, Rabindranath
Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.
Unknown, Author
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Bach, Richard
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Dickens, Charles
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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.
Kraus, Karl
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.
Glassberg, Jeffrey
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.
Levi, Primo