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Quotes About Butterflies

My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
You are who I love, you struggling to see You struggling to love or find a question You better than me You are who I love weeping or touching the faces of the weeping You noticing the butterflies You in brightness and in darkness, throwing your head back as you laugh, kissing your hand You studying stars, you are who I love
~ Aracelis Girmay
I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.
~ Lewis Capaldi
And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses
~ Rubem Alves
For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognize No man-made border
~ Ruskin Bond
On my way back to the town I took a short cut through the forest. A swarm of yellow butterflies drifted across the path. A woodpecker pecked industriously on the bark of a tree, searching for young cicadas. Overhead, wild duck flew north, on their way across Central Asia, all traveling without passports. Birds and butterflies recognize no borders.
~ Ruskin Bond
The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.
~ Margaret Atwood
she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We've always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.
~ Anna Akhmatova
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A perfectly poetic appreciation of nature contains two elements, a knowledge of facts, and a sensibility to charms. Everybody who may have to speak to some naturalists will be well aware how widely the two may be separated. He will have seen that a man may study butterflies and forget that they are beautiful, or be perfect in the " Lunar theory" without knowing what most people mean by the moon.
~ bagehot walter ix
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
~ John Starks
I never was a sick like throwing up type of guy. I get nervous with the butterflies in the stomach. I was never a throwing up kind of guy... I'm kind of a pacer. I can't sit down. I can't sit still. I guess that's why I don't ever sit down the whole game.
~ Philip Rivers
A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Height to height and light to light, like butterflies and minor gods or aerial photographers we make this plot, pretend to view a former fate where Hardy's rustics still forgive what seems to them but nature's lot.
~ John Milbank
I wished I could take those words back. Gather them up like butterflies in a net.
~ Barbara O'Connor
I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.
~ Joan Rivers
Butterflies instantly came to life in his stomach, and the little bastards were heavily armed.
~ Scott Lynch
Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.
~ Arundhati Roy
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
~ Candace Bushnell