(122 quotes found)
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou
“Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
Elizabeth Goudge
“A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly”
Andre Gide
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
Chuang Tzu
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
William Moulton Marston
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
Charles Dickens
“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”
“I hate when I'm a sexual butterfly and the man I'm with is a damn moth”
nerissa irving
“Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
