Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful.

I was sad, but I told them: I am tired.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important.

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Où sont les hommes?' reprit enfin le petit prince. 'On est un peu seul dans le désert.''On est seul aussi chez les hommes', dit le serpent.

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--Ah, said the fox, I shall cry.It is your own fault, said the little prince. I never wished you any sort of harm; but y...

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

You are beautiful, but you are empty, he went on. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

N'oublie pas, dit le renard, c'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante. -c'est le temps que j'ai perdu pour ma rose... fit le petit prince, afin de souvenir...

Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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

But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures.

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...'I answered, 'Yes, of course.