Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

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 she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

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

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

"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."

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.