The Little Prince Quotes

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“When you look up at the sky at night, since I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“This is just the crate. The sheep you want is inside.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him: "The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will " I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And when you're consoled (everyone eventually is consoled), you'll be glad you've known me. You'll always be my friend. You'll feel like laughing with me. And you'll open your window sometimes just for the fun of it ... And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing while you're looking up at the sky.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The little prince went away, to look at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose", he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. [...] You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince