Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes - page 3

Antoine de Saint Exupéry was a French writer and pioneering aviator, best known as the author of "The Little Prince." His adventurous spirit and poetic prose have touched generations of readers around the world. He remains celebrated for his profound reflections on humanity, friendship, and the meaning of life. Here are 149 of his quotes:

What makes the desert beautiful", said the little prince, "is that it hides, somewhere, a well.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

It is much more difficult to judge oneself, than to judge others.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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 Exupéry

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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 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

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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 Exupéry

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 Exupéry

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

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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 Exupéry

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 Exupéry

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

I remembered the fox. You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Love does not cause suffering what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry