Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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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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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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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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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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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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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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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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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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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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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.