Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
-
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.
-
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
-
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
-
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
-
The only things you learn are the things you tame.
-
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
-
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
-
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
-
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
-
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
-
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
-
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
-
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
-
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
-
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
-
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
-
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
-
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
-
To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.
-
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
-
Man is, above all, he who creates.
-
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
-
But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
-
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.