Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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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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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
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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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My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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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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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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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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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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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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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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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 airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]