Antoine De Saint Exupery Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Antoine De Saint Exupery quotes, Antoine De Saint Exupery sayings, and Antoine De Saint Exupery proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together 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-Exupéry
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
How should men know what is coming to pass within them, when there are no words to graps it?How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint Exupery
But on a day of burial there is no perspective—for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was—to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In a civil war the firing line is invisible, it passses through the hearts of men. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To love - doesn't mean to look at each other, to love - means together to look in one direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh, into which relationships are tied. Only these relationships matter. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry