Aviator Quotes

“But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.”

“It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.”

“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.”

“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”

“What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.”

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

“There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.”

“The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.”

“There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.”

“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.”

“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”

“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.”

“Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.”

“True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.”

“He who never says "no" is no true man.”

“I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!”

“"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."”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.”

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

“Where I live, everything is very small.”

“What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.”

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

“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.”

“A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.”