Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

“Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.”

“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.”

“More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.”

“You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'”

“It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes”

“Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.”

“He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.”

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”

“How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.”

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”

“You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.”

“Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.”

“No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.”

“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”

“Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.”

“Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.”

“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”

“One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.”

“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”

“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.”

“All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.”

“I shall never again admire a merely brave man.”

“* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.”

“I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.”