Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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I still fall for your everyday.
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At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.
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I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.