Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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.
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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.
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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.