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“In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.”

Children Universe Next Stars Space Forever Fire Fate Failing Tree Decided Ultimate Philosophical Wings Leaving Clouds Storm Experiments Seconds Butterfly Gutters Butterfly Wings Blankness

Author:Marshall Savage

“You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.”

Years Children Sometimes Whole Young Our Children Your Children Butterfly Disposition Advancing Young Children Caterpillars

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.”

Knows Love Dream Butterfly

Author:Zhuangzi

“The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly”

Drug Butterfly Caterpillars

Book:Neuropolitique

Source: Neuropolitique

“The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!”

Feels Mind Looks Heart Doe Reason Body Purpose Differences Beauty Flower My Heart Shapes Assuming Colour Touched No Reason Touching Butterfly Arrogant Scent Soar Nectar Flora

Author:Densey Clyne

“I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar”

Thinking Littles Singers Butterfly Drummer Caterpillars Like A Butterfly

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?”

Sin Dust Butterfly Worms Chrysalis

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly”

Knows Butterfly Thyself Know Thyself Pernicious Caterpillars

Author:Andre Gide

“And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.”

Minutes Ten Hundred Blue Genuine Seconds Butterfly Fluttering Genuine Happiness

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.”

Looks Shows Guy Space Experts Butterfly Berlin

Author:Damien Hirst

“I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.”

Want Littles Different Character Situation Creating Butterfly Drs Caterpillars Dr Frankenstein

Author:Gene Wilder

“Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”

Flower Creatures Bird Mysterious Fascinating Butterfly Insects Monarch Butterfly

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”

Flower Gratitude Thanks Honey Butterfly Bees Gaudy Monarch Butterfly Thanks To Him

Book:Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.”

Ifs Looks Cases Rich Summer Died Butterfly

Author:Philip Larkin

“If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!”

Ifs Why Not Butterfly Routes Scenic

Author:Claire Williams

“If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!”

Ifs Want Wings Butterfly

Author:Claire Williams

“Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.”

Way Goes On Butterfly Better Ways

Author:Patrick Monahan

“Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”

Stories Today Turns Mistake Saws Assuming Hats Mail Butterfly Subway And Off I Get Butterflies Sharpening Pencils

Author:Miklos Laszlo

“A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.”

Together America Millions Gold Rose South Storm Butterfly Spain Flew South America Monarch Butterfly

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.”

Ifs I Can Vain Butterfly Attending Complement Congruence

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”

“She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”

Husband Affected Hunting Butterfly Prettiest

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?”

Born Judgment Angel Screens Butterfly Worms Angelic Monarch Butterfly

Book:The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.

Source: The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.

“I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.”

Dying Fairs Butterfly Fading Fading Away

Book:Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

Source: Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

“One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.”

Ifs Science Progress Color Bases Wings Biology Atoms Butterfly Marvellous

Author:Niels Bohr

“What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.”

Butterfly Poor Richard Gaudy

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.”

Lying Desire Wind Flower Wheels Butterfly April Monarch Butterfly

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.”

Way Book Reading Boys Saws Poet Rounds Sat Misfortunes Butterfly Benches Meadows Monarch Butterfly Chasing Butterflies

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.”

Flower Flying Butterfly Caterpillars Flower Garden Flowers And Gardens Monarch Butterfly

Author:Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

“The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.”

Art White Honest Masters Late Flying Flight Too Late Butterfly Idiocy Cabbage Monarch Butterfly

Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.”

Hands Eye Poor Fool Garden Prison His Eyes Butterfly Insects Purple Monarch Butterfly

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.”

Written Messages Wings Butterfly

Author:Kjell Bloch Sandved

“How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.”

Song Eating Butterfly

Author:Kiyoshi Takayama

“Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.”

Flower Butterfly Monarch Butterfly

Author:Robert Frost

“The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.”

Feet Football Balls Butterfly Like A Butterfly Sore Feet

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.”

Political Events Statements Swim Swimming Butterfly Athletic Swimmer Motivational Swimming I Love Swimming

Author:Paul Tsongas

“Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.”

Form Nature Butterfly Insignificant Moths

Book:Our Corner

Source: Our Corner

“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind Certain Grace Wings Fishing Unusual Butterfly Arrangements Texture Mcdonalds Hamburgers Silhouettes Buns

Author:Ray Kroc

“On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly”

Teaching Tears Intellectual Wings Intelligence Butterfly Assessment

Author:Claude Debussy

“Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.”

Wings Fingers Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Sound Voice Rocks Singing Butterfly Gloomy Unicorn Baritones

Author:Bryce Dessner

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”

“And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.”

Beautiful Black Angry Butterfly Cocoons Beautiful Butterfly

Author:Tracy Morgan

“I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!'”

Knows Giving Should Children Said Causes Realizing Hurt Saws Huge Birth Drawing Abortion Butterfly It Hurts Snaps Billboards Painless

Author:Eugene Mirman

“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.”

Men Littles Stills Butterfly Magnificent Dirt Mud Insects

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.”

Butterfly Metamorphosis Like A Butterfly

Author:Mike Markkula

“The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.”

People Trying Use Trouble Comedian Satire Butterfly Hammers Noisy Brash

Author:Imogene Coca

“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”

Two Games Sleep Behinds Practice Struggle One Day Angel Wings Fingers Butterfly Like A Butterfly Sneaking Up

Author:Danilo Kis

“Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.”

Facts Sports Novel Example Murder Wit Pursuit Boards Capture Butterfly Elegance Favorite Sports Symmetrical

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.”

Individual Forget Existence Unique Remains Butterfly Explaining Earthquakes

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941

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