The best Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters.
They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?"
Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

The Little Prince

Logic

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

The Little Prince

Values Roses

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.

The Wisdom of the Sands

Desire Ocean Ships

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

Love Weddings Valentine's Day

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

The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth
When he was a little boy

The Little Prince

Book Dedications & Preambles

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Since the war he had read in a magazine an account of Saint- Exupéry's last flight, and on referring back to his war diaries had discovered that, on 31st July, 1944, a Focke-Wulf pilot on patrol over Ajaccio in Corsica reported the destruction of a re connaissance machine which fell into sea in flames after combat. This incident had occurred at about midday, when the Focke- Wulf was patrolling at between fifteen and sixteen thousand feet, at which height it is slightly faster than the Lightning. Korth's theory was that it had shot down Saint-Exupéry's plane as he was dropping off height before re-crossing the coast to return to base; the sun, too, would have been full in his face, and might have blinded him to the approach of the enemy plane. Korth's account ended: I am only a pariah, but I beg you to send my good wishes to the comrades of Saint-Exupéry's Squadron; they won't despise the greetings of a veteran German pilot writing from a Germany in despair, and who has French blood in his veins, for my mother, born in Lorraine, was a Frenchwoman.

Richard Rumbold - The Winged Life, N.Y.: David McKay Company, 1953

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

I once considered keeping some pets in my office, but soon gave up on the idea. It's just not right to keep small animals where they won't be able to see the sun.

Wriothesley in Genshin Impact

Pets

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins

Solitude & Loneliness Sunset

I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction. After all, the most minor event, even a butterfly flapping its wings, can change everything.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 3 Episode 16

Butterflies

Like so many things, it's not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

Aladdin

Beauty Profoundness

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Change Wind Deserts

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

Crying & Tears Rain

Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Iron Flame

Logic

It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.

Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Values

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Friendship Garden Roses

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Garden State

Desire Breakup Home

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Ocean

Tyrion: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it."
Varys: "That is good to hear. Though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat."

Lord Varys in Game of Thrones - Season 2 Episode 9

Ships

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

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