Occupation: Writer Birth: June 29, 1900 Death: July 31, 1944
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..
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the g….
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison..
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth..
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world..
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds..
I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains e….
He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, ….
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it..
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed..
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past..
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man..
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance..
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something..
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite..
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity..
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind d….
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are..
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause..