“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
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Flowers are weak creatures. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry