Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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 Exupéry
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people 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
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which is the contrary of love.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Only the children know what they are looking for.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry