206 quotes found
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats - and we give no thought to the beating of o...”
“if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?”
“The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.”
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do not with the evidence but with the witness. The point is not the adventure but th...”
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
“If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.”
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
“Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exce...”
“And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.”
“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little pr...”
“Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoni...”
“Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)”
“The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.”
“Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.”
“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
“The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from he...”
“Flowers are so inconsistent!”
“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 h...”
