- "Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- [N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
- 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 only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
- If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
- The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.
- Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun.
- The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.
- This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
- William Butler Yeats, "Another Song of a Fool".
- This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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