Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.

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.

Nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has — yes or no? — eaten a rose...Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the she...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?It is an act too often neglected, said the fox. It means to establish ties. To establish ties? Just that, said the fox. To me, you are still nothi...

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

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

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

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...

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend.

One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c'est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel.

That's right' said the fox. 'To me, you are still just a little boy like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. To you, I am just a fox li...

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless froli...

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.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting...

Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n’ai pas besoin de toi. Et tu n’as pas besoin de moi non plus. Je ne suis pour toi qu’un renard semblable à...

Tu sais… quand on est tellement triste on aime les couchers de soleil…-Le jour des quarante-trois fois tu étais donc tellement triste? Mais le petit prince ne répontit pas.

You know--one loves the sunset, when one is so sad.

You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful,...