Quote

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

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
Life
Indifference
Figures
Certainly
Understand
Matter

More quotes by 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
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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 torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
He who never says no is no true man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery