Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

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.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

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

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

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

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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

* 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.

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.