Butterflies are extraordinary creatures that have been signs of new beginnings and amazing beauty. 🦋
Because of this, I decided to share some amazing quotes about butterflies so you too can be inspired by their transformative qualities.
Side note: If I have missed any must-have quotes about butterflies that you think belong in this list, please comment below as I will be sure to include them on the list! 😃
63+ Beautiful Quotes About Butterflies!
1. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” – Muhammad Ali
2. “You can only chase a butterfly for so long.” – Jane Yolen
3. “Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.” – Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
4. “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” – Charles Dickens
5. “Butterflies…flowers that fly and all but sing.” – Robert Frost
6. “We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” – LeeAnn Taylor
7. “Butterflies are like angels kisses sent from heaven.” – Malia Kirk
8. “David knew everyone because he’s such a social butterfly.” – Stephen Stills
9. “Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.” – Deborah Chaskin
10. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore
11. “The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.” – Ponce Denis Écouchard Le Brun
12. “You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process.” – Rupi Kaur
13. “Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” – Vladimir Nabokov
14. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.” – Wendy Mass
15. “When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Famous Quotes About Butterflies
16. “Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.” – Sabrina Newby
17. “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” – Carl Sagan
18. “A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.” – André Gide
19. “But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.” – Jacqueline Woodson
20. “I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.” – Thomas Haynes Bayly
21. “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” – George Carlin
22. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
23. “Butterflies are nature’s angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive.” – Robyn Nola
24. “Butterflies are caterpillars that fight back and come off with ‘flying colors’.” – Unknown
25. “The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.” – A. Zavarelli
26. “Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.” – Unknown
27. “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.” – Mario Quintana
28. “The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It’s very heavenly.” – Louie Schwartzberg
29. “Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.” – Kjell Bloch Sandved
30. “Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein
31. “And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I’m a beautiful, black butterfly.” – Tracy Morgan
32. “Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” – Bradley Millar
33. “They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.” – Edith Wharton
34. “They say, Only in dreams men are truly free, What does a butterfly dream about? – It’s already free!” – Scholasticus K
35. “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Anderson
36. “Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.” – Ellen DeGeneres
Beautiful Quotes About Butterflies
37. “The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.” – Guillermo del Toro
38. “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
39. “Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.” – George Sand
40. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou
41. “A caterpillar, after its deep slumber, ‘wakes up to reality’ to realize, that truth is not always bitter after all!” – Manali Oak
42. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale
43. “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.” – Joseph Conrad
44. “How does one become a butterfly? You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” – Trina Paulus
45. “Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.” – Drew Barrymore
46. “It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” – Unknown
47. “As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
48. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
49. “Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul.” – K. D’Angelo
50. “I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.” – William Stafford
51. “Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.” – Emme Rollins
52. “We can learn a lesson from the butterfly, beginning its life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.” – Heather Wolf
53. “Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.” – Stephanie Pace Marshall
54. ” 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
55. “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” – Jeffrey Glassberg
56. “Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.” – Louie Schwartzberg
57. “The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
Transformative Quotes About Butterflies
58. “Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who’ve been in love with the wrong man too often.” – Alice Hoffman
59. “Butterflies are a breath of beauty fluttering by, they are mystery chronicled upon wing, they bring forth the grace and wonder of this world to our eyes every day.” – K. D’Angelo
60. “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.” – Gemma Malley
61. “I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
62. “Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
63. “I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?” – Zhuangzi
64. “The butterfly said to the sun, “They can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can only do it once in my lifetime. If only they knew, they can do it at any time and in countless ways.” – Dodinsky