Night Flight Quotes

“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“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-Exupéry, Night Flight

“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“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-Exupéry, Night Flight

“It's hard luck always having to be a judge.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“Nós não pedimos para ser eternos, mas apenas para não ver os atos e as coisas perderem subitamente o seu sentido. O vazio que nos rodeia faz-se então sentir...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight