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She was also a memory, the worst kind of memorythe kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name. — Laura Miller
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
— Cornelia Funke
He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
— Milan Kundera
We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
— Julia Butterfly Hill
I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty.
— Leeza Donatella
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
— Joni Mitchell
the butterfly of Christmastown?
— Ann Gelder
What is a butterfly? At bestHe's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just. — Benjamin Franklin
Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Both halves of this delicate bivalve are exactly matched. Each side, like the wing of a butterfly, is marked with the
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
— Juliette Adam
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
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
— Alma Gluck
I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.
— Laura Miller
A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger.
— Steven Aitchison
The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.
— Tessa Thompson
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
— Maya Angelou
How to Write a PoemCatch the air
around the butterfly. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
— Claude Debussy
Maybe the point isn't whether or not you become a moth or a butterfly. Maybe the point is that, either way, you've got wings.
— Autumn Doughton
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
— Barbara Haines Howett
This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands. — William Butler Yeats
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
— Max Muller
(Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From Butterfly on F street — Edward P. Jones
Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
— Willie Stargell
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
— Hans Christian Andersen
A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. To Pimp a Butterfly is an extension of those albums.
— Kendrick Lamar
The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.
— Kiyoshi Takayama
All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
— Charles Kingsley
A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL.
— John Allison
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds
— M.F. Moonzajer
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
— Carl Sandburg
I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back.
— Laura Miller
All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
— Faina Ranevskaya
I said that I'm a fairy ... and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.
— Sasha Pivovarova
Love in the heart tingles the stomach -Kissing with butterfly wings on the lips -
Seen star for star, millions of stars. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton
That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.
— Conrad Wesselhoeft
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
— Edith Wharton
A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.
— Marlene Van Niekerk
Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
— Hans Christian Andersen
When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
— Catherynne M Valente
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
— Anthony De Mello
Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
— Marian Phair
On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia
The quiveringof Psyche's butterflies. — Hilda Doolittle
I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.
— Nicole Kidman
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
— Pierre Bonnard
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
— Jimi Hendrix
The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I had the strange desire for a giant butterfly net to catch whatever was out there, as if it could be captured so easily.
— Courtney King Walker
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
— Kjell Bloch Sandved
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
— Frederick Lenz
Patience with the caterpillar is patience with the butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
That tendency ... to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.
— John Galsworthy
Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.
— Tom Cardamone
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors
— Diane Lee Wilson
Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
— Marcus O'Sullivan
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.
— Peter S. Beagle
I am a flower on the tree we call the universe. My mind is dancing with joy like butterfly.
— Debasish Mridha
MAke sure she can handle a gun, please."I whacked him on the arm.
"Hmm, did a butterfly just land on me? — Sherry Gammon
...a cyclamen that looks like a flight of butterflies, frozen for a single, exquisite moment in the white heart of Time...
— Beverley Nichols
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
— Franklin P. Adams
In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
— Zeenat Aman
Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked, Rafael said.
— Rose Christo
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
— Dante Alighieri
Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
— Fazil Iskander
If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.
— John Harricharan