Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

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

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.”

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

“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.”

“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.”

“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”

“The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”