110+ Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes (Imaginative, Philosophical And Poetic)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French novelist, poet, and aviator. He is best known for his novella The Little Prince, which has been translated into more than 250 languages and sold over 140 million copies worldwide. He was also a pioneering aviator, writing several books about his flying experiences, including Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars.

Top 10 Antoine De Saint-Exupery Quotes

1. If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
2. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
3. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
4. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
5. As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
6. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
7. You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.
8. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
9. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
10. One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Image Quotes

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine De Saint-Exupery Short Quotes

• You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
• True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
• Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
• Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Famous Quotes And Sayings

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, when words fade and things come alive. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

The one thing that matters is the effort. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who would travel happily must travel light — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am who I am and I have the need to be. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.' — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life Lessons by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1. Antoine de Saint-Exupery taught the importance of living with passion and purpose, and to never forget the beauty of life’s simple pleasures.
2. He also encouraged us to be compassionate and generous, and to always strive to do our best.
3. Lastly, he taught us to appreciate the journey of life, and to never forget the importance of friendship and love.