Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten.

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

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

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

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

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

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 begun 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.