Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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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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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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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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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.
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We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.
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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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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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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.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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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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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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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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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.