All Quotes By Tag: Butterflies

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

“A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought –But no, a butterfly.”

“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.”

“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.”

“You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you’ll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We bear their children, who are witches if they are female, human if not; and then in the blink of an eye they are gone, felled, slain, lost. Our sons, too. When a little boy is growing, he thinks he is immortal. His mother knows he isn’t. Each time becomes more painful, until finally your heart is broken. Perhaps that is when Yambe-Akka comes for you. She is older than the tundra. Perhaps, for her, witches’ lives are as brief as men’s are to us.”

“When God becomes glad with our good works, then He sends the cute animals, birds, butterflies etc. near us like a signal to express His happiness!”

“We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.”

“When nature moves, butterflies take flight.”

“We don’t see snakes because they wear suits, but we see butterflies because they wear pyjamas.”

“I tell of hearts and souls and dances…Butterflies and second chances;Desperate ones and dreamers bound,Seeking life from barren ground,Who suffer on in earthly fateThe bitter pain of agony hate,Might but they stop and here forgiveWould break the bonds to breathe and liveAnd find that God in goodness bringsA chance for change, the hope of wingsTo rest in Him, and self to dieAnd so become a butterfly.”

“Butterflies will always look beautiful, no matter what the angle.”

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”

“Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.”

“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”