„Come back!” the Caterpillar called after her. “I’ve something important to say.”This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.”Keep your temper,” said the Caterpillar.“

— Lewis Carroll
„Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.“
— Lewis Carroll
„The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth“
— Lewis Carroll
„What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.“
— Richard Bach
„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
„What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.“
— Ram Dass
„There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night“
— Coco Chanel
„He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.“
— Haruki Murakami