Butterfly Quotes - Page 23

• ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Punishment, Bird

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty as a picture. (Who wants to be a cliché?) Pretty as an angel. (Can you see them?) Pretty as a butterfly. (But isn't that really just a glam bug?) Cliché, invisible, or insectlike, I grew up knowing I was pretty and believing everything good about me had to do with how I looked. The mirror was my best friend. Until it started telling me I wasn't really pretty enough.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Mean, Angel

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wings, Feet, Gnats

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

  Shannon Hale

  Freedom, Refuse

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• Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Beautiful, Ugly, Imagine

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition”, Univ of California Press

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• She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Cat, Wind

  Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.140, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Childhood, Way, Mathematician

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hurt, Animal, Wings

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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• Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Thinking, Mysterious

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  School, Sunset, Sunday

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sight, Punctuation Marks, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Horse, War, Eye

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• Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

  Tristan Tzara

  Buddhist, Passion, Skulls

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• As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

  Stephen Hawking

  New York, Rain, Mean

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• But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

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• Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Mind, World

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Dust, Years, Wind

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• Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

  Greg Behrendt

  Giving, Feelings, Lust

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.143, Harmony

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• I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

  Og Mandino

  Flower, Firefly, Wings

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.72, Bantam

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Deny, Mankind

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

  Cornelia Funke

  Doe, Caterpillars, Asks

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• The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Heart, Sight

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• What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies

  Charles Bukowski

  Dollars, Cost, Raises

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.221, Canongate Books

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• I get butterflies just like everyone else. So I meditate for at least ten minutes before I perform. I breathe in and out slowly for ten minutes, and that literally helps me slow my heart rate and relax.

  Matthew Moy

  Heart, Relax, Helping

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