Quotes By Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”

“You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.”

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

“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.”

“Es ist viel schwerer, über sich selbst zu richten, als über andere zu urteilen. Wenn du es schaffst, selbst über dich gerecht zu werden, dann bist du ein wahrer Weiser.”

“If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”

“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”

“Good morning,” said the little prince.Good morning,” said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink.Why are you selling those?” asked the little prince.Because they save a tremendous amount of time,” said the merchant. “Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week.”And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?”Anything you like…”As for me,” said the little prince to himself, “if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean — tame?””It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.” “To establish ties?” “Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world….”

“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”

“Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto.Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas.”

“I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words.”

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”