Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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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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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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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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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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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.
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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
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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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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.