Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

"Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can create Man.

كنت أود الإتصال. أعرف أني لا أجيد الحديث في الهاتف, وأني كمت سأقول (آلو..آلو..) لكي أتمالك نفسي. من المحزن أن يكون المرء اخرساً

C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.

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

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups

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

How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gildings: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

الشعور بالوحدة موجود أيضاً حتى بين الناس

C'est bien d'avoir eu un ami, même si l'on va mourir.

If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Au-dessus de mes mots maladroits, au-dessus des raisonnements qui me peuvent tromper, tu considères en moi simplement l'Homme. Tu honores en moi l'ambassadeur de croyances, de coutumes, d'amours particulières. Si je diffère de toi, loin de te léser, je t'augmente. Tu m'interroges comme l'on interroge le voyageur.