Exupery Little Prince Quotes

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures..

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... 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!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh ...

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world" - the little prince

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

I'm never sick when you are well.

Il est bien plus difficile de se juger soi-même que de juger autrui . Si tu réussis à bien te juger, c'est que tu es un véritable sage.

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...

I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

Your path lies across the stars.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat...

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

I have to leave, leave, leave ...

Si lloras será por tu culpa -dijo el principito- Yo no quise hacerte ningún mal;pero tu insististe en que te domesticara

I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen... The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. And that was true. 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... "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..." I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands.

I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.

the most terrible dramas are those veiled in mystery.

Les toutes grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants.

Esta es la clave del sentido de la vida; amor es preocuparse por otro:flor, estrella,volcán,hombre...es sentirse responsable por otro

Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.

No se ve bien sino con el corazón,lo esencial es invisible a los ojos

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...

Decididamente, los adultos son raros, pensó el principito durante el viaje

Solo los niños saben lo que buscan

Los hombres-dijo el principito-se recluyen en trenes rápidos sin saber lo que buscan.Entonces se inquietan y dan vueltas

একদিন আমি তেতাল্লিশ বার সূর্য ডুবতে দেখলাম।' একটু পরে সে আরও বলল-- 'জানো, লোকেদের যখন খুব মন খারাপ থাকে তখন সূর্যডোবা দেখতে ভাল লাগে।' 'তেতাল্লিশবারের দিন তাহলে তোমার খুব মন খারাপ ছিল?' কোন জবাবই কিন্তু দিল না খুদে রাজকুমার।

I have a very precise memory of the local train, the hot bricks and copper boxes filled with boiling water to warm us up. Someone in another compartment was playing the guitar. To the rhythm of the train's rocking movement, I heard the chorus "Porque yo to quiero, porque yo to quiero," and I traveled toward my Tonio telling myself, "Because I love you ... because I love you

Lo que lo hace hermoso es algo invisible...los ojos no siempre ven. Hay que buscar con el corazón

Es triste olvidar a un amigo y volverse como los adultos que se interesan por los números

Son realmente hermosas pero vacías rosas -añadió el principito- Uno se siente impulsado a dejarse morir por ustedes

Pero nosotros, que comprendemos la vida, nos burlamos de los números

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.

Tu te tornas eternamente responsável por aquilo que cativas.

!Hablas como los adultos!;!Lo Confundes todo...No sabes distinguir!

Yo soy un hombre serio...Y se hincha de orgullo -Pero para mí no es un hombre !Es un Hongo!

Por eso su ocupación es hermosa...Es verdaderamente útil

¿Acaso no se hallaban contentos donde estaban?-Nunca está nadie contento donde se encuentra

Since you left, Leon, the valet, is always drunk, the rice is undercooked, and my underwear is being stolen. I will come to get you and marry you in any country in the world and you'll arrange a lovely room for me, but without a cask with a golden spigot, because that's been stolen, too. I'm not writing anymore. I'm making my mother cry because I'm in despair. Our separation is driving me mad.

পোষ মানার অর্থ কী?' 'ওটা একটা ভুলে যাওয়া জিনিস', উত্তর দেয় শেয়াল,'ওর অর্থ হল গিয়ে সম্পর্ক তৈরি করা...' 'সম্পর্ক তৈরি করা?' 'অবশ্যই,' বললে শেয়াল। 'তুমি এখনো পর্যন্ত আমার কাছে শুধুমাত্র ছোট্ট একটি ছেলের মত। তোমাকে আমার দরকার নেই, আমাকেও তোমার দরকার নেই। তোমার কাছে আমি একটা শেয়াল মাত্র, হুবহু আর লাখখানেক শেয়ালের মত। কিন্তু তুমি যদি আমাকে পোষ তাহলে আমাদের দু'জনেরই দু'জনকে দরকার হবে। পৃথিবীতে আমি হব তোমার কাছে অনন্য, তুমি হবে আমার কাছে অনন্য...'। 'ও এই ব্যাপার। এখন আমি একটু একটু বুঝতে শুরু করেছি', বলে খুদে রাজকুমার,'জানো, একটা ফুল আছে, আমার ধারণা, সে আমাকে পুষেছে...'।

When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.

Los niños deben ser muy indulgentes con las personas grandes

One never knows.

It's crazy to hate all the roses because one punctured you. Give up all your dreams because one of them did not perform

THE LITTLE PRINCE BY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.

যে ফুলের আদল পাওয়া যায় শুধুমাত্র লক্ষ লক্ষ তারার মধ্যে, তাকে যদি কেউ ভালবাসে, তারাদের দিকে চেয়ে চেয়েই তার সুখ। নিজেকে সে বোঝায়, 'ঐখানে কোথাও না কোথাও আছে আমার ফুল...' কিন্তু সেই ফুলটাকে যদি ভেড়া খেয়ে ফেলে তাহলে তো তার কাছে নিভে যায় সব তারার আলো। এটা কি গুরুগম্ভীর বিষয় নয়?

I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat...

Gdy ktoś kocha różę, której jedyny okaz znajduje się na jednej z milionów gwiazd, wystarczy mu na nie spojrzeć, aby być szczęśliwym. Mówi sobie: Na którejś z nich jest moja róża…

Grown-ups like numbers.

Судить себя куда труднее, чем других. Если ты сумеешь правильно судить себя, значит, ты поистине мудр.

روباه گفت: - کاش سر همان ساعت دیروز آمده بودی. اگر مثلا سر ساعت چهار بعد از ظهر بیایی من از ساعت سه تو دلم قند آب می شود و هر چه ساعت جلوتر برود بیش تر احساس شادی و خوش بختی می کنم. ساعت چهار که شد دلم بنا می کند شور زدن و نگران شدن. آن وقت است که قدر خوشبختی را می فهمم! امّا اگر تو وقت و بی وقت بیایی من از کجا بدانم چه ساعتی باید دلم را برای دیدارت آماده کنم؟... هر چیزی برای خودش رسم و رسومی دارد.

One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!" And a little later you added, "You know when you're feeling sad, sunsets are wonderful..." "On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling sad?" But the little prince didn't answer.

But the flower was not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber. She chose her colours with the greatest care. She dressed herself slowly. She adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of her beauty that she wished to appear.

– Szukam przyjaciół. Co znaczy „oswoić”? – Jest to pojęcie zupełnie zapomniane – powiedział lis. – „Oswoić” znaczy „stworzyć więzy”. – Stworzyć więzy? – Oczywiście – powiedział lis. – Teraz jesteś dla mnie tylko małym chłopcem, podobnym do stu tysięcy małych chłopców. Nie potrzebuję ciebie. I ty mnie nie potrzebujesz. Jestem dla ciebie tylko lisem, podobnym do stu tysięcy innych lisów. Lecz jeżeli mnie oswoisz, będziemy się nawzajem potrzebować.

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

You see the fields of corn? Well, I don't eat bread. Corn is of no use to me. Corn fields remind me of nothing. Which is sad. On the other hand, your hair is the colour of gold. So think how wonderful it will be when you have tamed me. The corn, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I shall come to love the sound of the wind in the field of corn...

But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him.

You become responsible for what you’ve tamed.” Antione de Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince

When you’re alone with your solitary obsession, each day builds upon the one before. Energy concentrates. Your passion and intensity create a planet all your own, like the one the Little Prince lived on in Saint-Exupery’s book. This planet possesses its own gravitational field, and that field draws unto itself like-minded particles from space, from the aether, from the Big Bang. I mean ideas. Ideas for scenes, for dialogue, for characters, for conflicts. This field draws phrases you have never spoken. It attracts words you never knew you knew.

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.