152 quotes found
“Flowers are so inconsistent!”
“All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but ad...”
“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustnt forget it. You become responsible forever for what youve tamed. Youre responsible for your rose.”
“Of course Ill hurt you. Of course youll 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 pres...”
“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 trs simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cur. 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...”
“What a space between men their spiritual natures create! A girls reverie isolates her from me, and how shall I enter it? What can one know of a girl that passes, slow steps homeward, out of thought...”
“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...”
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“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...”
