Quote

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

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
Would
Ways
Gentle
Men
Knew
Flowers
Love
Least
Forth
Snare
Break
Storm
Snares
Music
Seemed
Godlike
Might
Smile
Departure
Without
Regret
Fury
Way
Flower
Fragile

More quotes by 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
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
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 defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery