Fluttering Quotes

• The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Capricious, Insects

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

  Emily Bronte

  Fall, Autumn, Tree

  Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

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• The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

  Kate Chopin

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.19

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• There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, Wings

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

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• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Dancing, Breeze

  'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (1807).

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• The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

  Mick Jagger

  Gone, Fleeting, Elusive

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• Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tea, Littles, Found

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Butterfly, Wings, Causes

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• Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Eye, Wind, Skins

  "Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.

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  We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Butterfly, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Historical Novels, Literature, Cloaks

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

  Kate Chopin

  Strong, Wings, Bird

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.217

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• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Sheep, People

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Wings, Broken

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  Emily Bronte

  Wind, Sky, Breathing

  Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

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• His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

  Etgar Keret

  Liars, Angel, Wings

  Etgar Keret (2015). “The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories”, p.15, Penguin

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• The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Light, Blue

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• If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Butterfly, Sun

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

  Lauren Oliver

  Romantic, Thinking, He Makes Me Feel

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• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rags, Littles, Fence

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

  Richelle Mead

  Butterfly, Strange, Cardiac

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1326, Penguin

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• You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Kissing, Tiny, Lips

  Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press

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• Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now 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.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Butterfly, Men

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we artists to learn, hour by hour, to penetrate itto understand about Distance, to know the Air and space, which is never still, but always vibrating and wiggling. The tiniest oscillation is, in itself, a motive for art - it is a new beauty: fluttering, creaking, disjointed, and buoyant.

  Mario de Sa-Carneiro

  Art, Distance, Believe

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• There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

  Gabriel Macht

  Bird, Care, Praying

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