Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who...

All men have the stars, he answered, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sk...

Bit by bit, nevertheless, it comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this one garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true mourning, wh...

C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.

One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' And a little later you added, 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful...''On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very...

Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the thin...

The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her.....

Y cuando te hayas consolado (uno siempre termina por consolarse) te alegrarás de haberme conocido

You are beautiful, but you are empty. 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. But in herself alone sh...

آنذاك لم أستطع أن أفهم شيئا، فقد كان عليّ أن أحكم عليها من خلال الأفعال لا الأقوال. إنها عطّرتني وأضاءتني. لم يكن عليّ أن أهرب! كان عليّ أن أتنبأ بحنانها المختبيء خلف حِيَلها الساذجة. إن الزهور متناقض...

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express.Are they pursuing the first travelers? demanded the little prince.They are pursuing nothing at all, said the switchman. They a...

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like...One day, you said to me, I saw the sunse...

For I perceived that man's estate is as a citadel: he may throw down the walls to gain what he calls freedom, but then nothing of him remains save a dismantled fortress, open to the stars. And then be...