Do you know that the life of a butterfly is short? They flutter around for just a few weeks before they die. But while they’re alive, they bring so much joy to everyone around them. Their colors are so bright and their movements are so graceful. They’re a reminder that even though life can be tough, there’s still beauty to be found in it. Here are some inspiring butterfly quotes to help you remember this yourself.

1. She was the death of me, the beginning and the end.And I never understood her, for how could someoneSo beautiful be the causeof so much destructionafter all. — Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

2. Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. — Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

3. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. — Rabindranath Tagore

4. The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

5. Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? — Max Muller

6. You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. — Shannon Hale

7. You must look through an opportunity and not at it — Mayur Ramgir, Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership

8. She is like a butterfly, Beautiful to look at But hard to catch. — Nikki Rowe

9. And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. — William Butler Yeats

10. What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies? — Roy Rogers

11. The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful. — Tricia Stirling, When My Heart Was Wicked

12. If we’re so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can’t we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly? — Miley Cyrus

13. Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera

14. 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

15. ‘the dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.––From ”Balloons’ — Zoë S. Roy, Butterfly Tears

16. If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

17. Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing. — Michelle Dalton, Fifteenth Summer

18. When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it’s caterpillar life. — L.J. Smith

19. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. — Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer’s Life

20. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali

21. There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. — Victor Hugo

22. When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it’s caterpillar life. — L.J. Smith

23. Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake

24. Live like a butterfly — transform yourself to see only beauty.

25. On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly;And like the ancient drummer, I rhythm straight towards the sky… — Stephan Attia, The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

26. 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

27. Live like a butterfly — transform yourself to see only beauty.

28. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. — Rabindranath Tagore

29. A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first — allow yourself time to grow.

30. Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

31. When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate. — Nick Sagan, Idlewild

32. I’m Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly. — Serena Williams

33. 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

34. When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, ‘My life has just begun. — Matshona Dhliwayo

35. I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box. — Rebecca Paula, Everly After

36. You must look through an opportunity and not at it — Mayur Ramgir, Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership

37. ‘the dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.––From ”Balloons’ — Zoë S. Roy, Butterfly Tears

38. Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly . — Vladimir Nabokov

39. God bless you butterfly, because now I’m claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind — Poppet, Ryan

40. ‘the dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.––From ”Balloons’ — Zoë S. Roy, Butterfly Tears

41. Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

42. Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach–an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance. — Rose Leslie

43. He is a male butterfly without the wings–the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

44. …a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity. — Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat

45. And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. — William Butler Yeats

46. ‘the dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.––From ”Balloons’ — Zoë S. Roy, Butterfly Tears

47. Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda

48. He is a male butterfly without the wings–the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

49. Convince yourself that you can do it, and the rest of the world will automatically be convinced — Mayur Ramgir, Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership

50. Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. — Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

Butterflies have been a source of inspiration for many people over the centuries. Their beauty, grace, and transformation have been a source of fascination and admiration for many. We can learn a lot from these tiny creatures, and these inspiring quotes prove it. Whether you’re looking for a bit of motivation, a thoughtful reminder, or just something to make you smile, these butterfly quotes are sure to do the trick. Remember, life is like a butterfly—enjoy it while it lasts!