Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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I was too young to know how to love her.
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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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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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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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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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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
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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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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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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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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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But 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.
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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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 want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.