327 Quotes About Butterfly

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

her fingertips brushed his hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing

I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can’t fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.

Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly.

...a cyclamen that looks like a flight of butterflies, frozen for a single, exquisite moment in the white heart of Time...

The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you've come.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Butterfly you.