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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes about Life

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love, Inspirational, Life
Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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-Exupery
Love, Inspirational, Life
Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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 presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Hurt, Spring

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Acceptance, Important

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Motivational, Best Effort

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspirational, Life, Boundaries
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Dog, Responsibility
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Purpose, Ifs

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Education, Learning
"Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Philosophy, Events

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-Exupery
Inspirational, Life, Creativity
"Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Success, Death

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Creativity, Adventure
"Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Order, Hateful
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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