Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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To live is to be slowly born.
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You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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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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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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I was too young to know how to love her.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
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You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
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I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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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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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."