206 quotes found
“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become pr...”
“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of y...”
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble t...”
“I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...”
“Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the t...”
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inco...”
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
“That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.”
“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're lookin...”
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
