Quote

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Lyons
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de St. Exupery
Saint-Exupery
Saint-Exupéry
Escape
Wild
Bird
Advantage
Took
Flock
Believe
Migration
Flocks
Birds

More quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Image
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
He who would travel happy must travel lite.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -from the Fox-
Antoine de Saint-Exupery