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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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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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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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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If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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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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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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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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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember 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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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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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 soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.