Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes - page 5

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:

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

What do we mean by setting a man free You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

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Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole world.

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Contrary to the vulgar illusion, it is thanks to the metal, and by virtue of it, that the pilot rediscovers nature. As I have already said, the machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through.

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I had a vision of the face of destiny.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Have you looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines?

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers.

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It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

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But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

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Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but-.

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Human drama does not show itself on the surface of life. It is not played out in the visible world, but in the hearts of men.

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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry