Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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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.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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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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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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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?
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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.
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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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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.