"I did not know how to reach..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.”
“When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world”
“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.”
More on Grief
“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
More on Loss
“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
“You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.”
“And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”