Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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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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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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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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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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I was too young to know how to love her.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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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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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
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You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.