Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes: 36

• Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Airman's Odyssey

• And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  The Little Prince

• Goodbye,"said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

• All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

  The Little Prince

• What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

  The Little Prince

• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

  The Little Prince

• People have forgotten this truth,"the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.

  The Little Prince

• The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

  The Little Prince

• Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

• Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

  The Little Prince

• People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it,"I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course,"I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  The Little Prince

• I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Manon, Ballerina

• If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

  The Little Prince

• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

• She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

  The Little Prince

• No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

  Flight to Arras

• Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

  Airman's Odyssey

• I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  The Little Prince

• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

  The Little Prince

• When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

  The Little Prince

• Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

  Le Petit Prince

• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

• If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

• No one is ever satisfied where he is.

  The Little Prince

• I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

  The Little Prince

• I am beginning to understand,"said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

• That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

• The only things you learn are the things you tame

  The Little Prince

• And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

• You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

  The Little Prince

• Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

  The Little Prince

• 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...

• Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

  Night Flight