Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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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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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
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One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
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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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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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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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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.
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And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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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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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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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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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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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.