The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince

6.9/102 min read

2/25/18

  • It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

  • It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important

  • One only understands the things that one tames

  • If you want a friend, tame me

  • No one is ever satisfied where he is

  • They are pursuing nothing at all

  • Only the children know what they are looking for

  • I, too, should be very happy if I could walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water

  • A little sunshine is all he needs

  • The desert is beautiful

  • What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well

  • The house, the stars, the desert-- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible

  • What is most important is invisible

  • The men where you live raise five thousand roses in the same garden-- and they do not find in it what they are looking for. And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water. But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...

  • Children understand

  • One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed

  • The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen

  • If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night

  • All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems . For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You-- you alone-- will have the stars as no one else has them

  • Time soothes all sorrows

  • You will always be my friend

  • Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes

  • And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance