- “Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou
- “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” – Naya Rivera
- “The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.” – Ecouchard Le Brun
- “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Barbara Haines Howett
- “With the rose the butterfly’s deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun’s sweet ray is hovering found.” – Heinrich Heine
- “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” – George Carlin
- “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” – John Keats
- “Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein, “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls”
- “Butterflies are nature’s angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive.” – Robyn Nola
- “The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.” – Paul Erlich
- “Butterflies… flowers that fly and all but sing.” – Robert Frost
- “And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” – Ruskin Bond
- “Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “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
- “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
- “If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” – Unknown (This quote is widely used but the author is not definitively known)
- “Butterflies… not only beautiful, but also a reminder that change can be beautiful.” – Heidi Wills