Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
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Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.