If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupery regretgriefmemories In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. Antoine de Saint-Exupery crowdsmessagesbears The one thing that matters is the effort. Antoine de Saint-Exupery best-effortmotivationallife On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain. Antoine de Saint-Exupery saying-goodbyelovedeath I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine de Saint-Exupery airplaneflyingtravel A goal without a pan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery goalwish I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sunsetlooks No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint-Exupery eventssoulwould-be Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience. Antoine de Saint-Exupery practical-experiencepracticalsguides The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery timeattitudemotivational I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Antoine de Saint-Exupery respecteyemen All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery rememberinspirationalchildren Night, when words fade and things come alive. Antoine de Saint-Exupery fadesalivenight Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery respectloveromantic 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery judging-yourselfwisemen There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery distancestrongwar It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery your-bodybody 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery starsflowersweet "What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation." Antoine de Saint-Exupery natureearthtravel You give birth to that on which you fix your mind Antoine de Saint-Exupery law-of-attractionsecretgiving
