Butterflies Quotes

Ellen DeGeneres

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

George Carlin

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

John Keats

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

Haruki Murakami

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

Alice Hoffman

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Gemma Malley

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

LeeAnn Taylor

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

Arakida Moritake

A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought -
But no, a butterfly.

Sabrina Newby

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

LeAnne Mechelle

It’s the butterflies in our bellies, and the lightening in our eyes that tells me this all makes so much fucking sense.

Crystal Woods

Butterflies. Everyday.

Robert A. Heinlein

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Marlene Van Niekerk

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

Barbara Kingsolver

The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Mary Clark Dalton

The Rainbow is a promise

Jessica Hawkins

Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren’t butterflies. They’re bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They’re dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?

Emme Rollins

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Gayle Forman

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

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