Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

I was too young to know how to love her.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

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

I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...