Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.