Petit Prince Love Quotes

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince.

Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c'esit doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles sont fleuries. (If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.)

You know… when you're so sad, it's lovely to see sunsets … — The day you saw it forty-four times, were you so very sad?" But the little prince made no reply.

It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. To give up on your dreams because one didn’t come true. To lose faith in prayers because one was not answered. To give up on your efforts because one of them failed. To condemn all your friends because one of them betrayed you. Not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful or didn’t love you back. To throw away all your chances to be happy because you didn’t succeed on the first attempt. I hope that as you go on your way, you don’t give in or give up.

Et [le petit prince] revint vers le renard : «Adieu, dit-il... - Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. - L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux», répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.

Even if we do not suffer from religious mania, unrequited love, loneliness or jealousy, most readers can identify with Burton’s account of information overload over three centuries before the invention of the internet, an extraordinary broadside which is worth quoting in full: I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland &c. daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought, so many men slain, monomachies, shipwrecks, piracies, and sea-fights, peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarms. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances, are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion &c. Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, plays; then again, as in a new shifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, robberies, enormous villanies in all kinds, funerals, burials, deaths of Princes, new discoveries, expeditions; now comical then tragical matters. To-day we hear of new Lords and officers created, to-morrow of some great men deposed, and then again of fresh honours conferred; one is let loose, another imprisoned; one purchaseth, another breaketh; he thrives, his neighbour turns bankrupt; now plenty, then again dearth and famine; one runs, another rides, wrangles, laughs, weeps &c. Thus I daily hear, and such like, both private and public news.37 And that way, Burton reminds us, that way madness lies…

FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Un arrêt moins rigoureux s’est échappé de sa bouche: ce n’est pas la mort de ton corps, mais son bannissement. ROMÉO.—Ah! le bannissement! aie pitié de moi; dis la mort. L’aspect de l’exil porte avec lui plus de terreur, beaucoup plus que la mort. Ah! ne me dis pas que c’est le bannissement. FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Tu es banni de Vérone. Prends patience; le monde est grand et vaste. ROMÉO.—Le monde n’existe pas hors des murs de Vérone; ce n’est plus qu’un purgatoire, une torture, un véritable enfer. Banni de ce lieu, je le suis du monde, c’est la mort. Oui, le bannissement, c’est la mort sous un faux nom; et ainsi, en nommant la mort un bannissement, tu me tranches la tête avec une hache d’or, et souris au coup qui m’assassine. FRÈRE LAURENCE.—O mortel péché! ô farouche ingratitude! Pour ta faute, notre loi demandait la mort; mais le prince indulgent, prenant ta défense, a repoussé de côté la loi, et a changé ce mot funeste de mort en celui de bannissement: c’est une rare clémence, et tu ne veux pas la reconnaître. ROMÉO.—C’est un supplice et non une grâce. Le ciel est ici, où vit Juliette: les chats, les chiens, la moindre petite souris, tout ce qu’il y a de plus misérable vivra ici dans le ciel, pourra la voir; et Roméo ne le peut plus! La mouche qui vit de charogne jouira d’une condition plus digne d’envie, plus honorable, plus relevée que Roméo; elle pourra s’ébattre sur les blanches merveilles de la chère main de Juliette, et dérober le bonheur des immortels sur ces lèvres où la pure et virginale modestie entretient une perpétuelle rougeur, comme si les baisers qu’elles se donnent étaient pour elles un péché; mais Roméo ne le peut pas, il est banni! Ce que l’insecte peut librement voler, il faut que je vole pour le fuir; il est libre et je suis banni; et tu me diras encore que l’exil n’est pas la mort!… N’as-tu pas quelque poison tout préparé, quelque poignard affilé, quelque moyen de mort soudaine, fût-ce la plus ignoble? Mais banni! me tuer ainsi! banni! O moine, quand ce mot se prononce en enfer, les hurlements l’accompagnent.—Comment as-tu le coeur, toi un prêtre, un saint confesseur, toi qui absous les fautes, toi mon ami déclaré, de me mettre en pièces par ce mot bannissement? FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Amant insensé, écoute seulement une parole. ROMÉO.—Oh! tu vas me parler encore de bannissement. FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Je veux te donner une arme pour te défendre de ce mot: c’est la philosophie, ce doux baume de l’adversité; elle te consolera, quoique tu sois exilé. ROMÉO.—Encore l’exil! Que la philosophie aille se faire pendre: à moins que la philosophie n’ait le pouvoir de créer une Juliette, de déplacer une ville, ou de changer l’arrêt d’un prince, elle n’est bonne à rien, elle n’a nulle vertu; ne m’en parle plus. FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Oh! je vois maintenant que les insensés n’ont point d’oreilles. ROMÉO.—Comment en auraient-ils, lorsque les hommes sages n’ont pas d’yeux? FRÈRE LAURENCE.—Laisse-moi discuter avec toi ta situation. ROMÉO.—Tu ne peux parler de ce que tu ne sens pas. Si tu étais aussi jeune que moi, amant de Juliette, marié seulement depuis une heure, meurtrier de Tybalt, éperdu d’amour comme moi, et comme moi banni, alors tu pourrais parler; alors tu pourrais t’arracher les cheveux et te jeter sur la terre comme je fais, pour prendre la mesure d’un tombeau qui n’est pas encore ouvert.

Life given and life taken away, and every moment in between. I live it all, with them, through them, as them. Whoosh. “If you leave, we will be brothers wherever you go, right, Maman?” Whoosh. Tobias presses his forehead to mine as I relay through stunted breaths that there is no separation—one last secret to take with me. “Frères pour toujours.” Whoosh. Cecelia’s storm engulfs me fully, sweeping me into the blissful state only she could ever take me as my brother’s whisper reaches me, “Mother greet you, Father keep you. I love you, brother.” Whoosh. “It’s time to sleep, Petit Prince.” Whoosh.

Mother greet you, Father keep you. I love you, brother.” Whoosh. “It’s time to sleep, Petit Prince.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times . . . You know . . . when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”—Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Why do you fear me, Raven? You have seen me at my worst, as a killer, a dispenser of justice for our people.” His thumbs stroked her nipples, a slow, erotic brush that sent liquid heat curling through her. “Do you believe I am evil? Touch my mind, little one. It is impossible for me to hide anything from you. I never concealed my true nature from you. You looked upon me once with the eyes of compassion and love. Of acceptance. Has that all been forgotten?” Raven closed her eyes, long lashes sweeping down on high cheekbones. “I don’t know what to believe anymore.” “Kiss me, Raven. Merge your mind with mine. Share your body so that we are completely one being. You trusted me before. Do so now. Look at me with the eyes of love, in forgiveness for the things I have been forced to do, for the beast in my nature. Do not look at me through the eyes of one who would wish to destroy our people and us. Give yourself to me.” His voice was seductive, a black magic spell, his hands caressing every beloved inch of her satin skin. He had committed every hollow, every curve, to memory. His body burned with need, and his hunger was rising. Her hunger, his. Very gently, so as not to alarm her, Mikhail pressed her slender body to the quilt, his muscular frame covering her smaller one like a blanket. She was so petite, so fragile, beneath his exploring hands. “Why have you become my life, Mikhail? I’ve always been alone and strong and sure of myself. You seem to have taken over my life.” His palms slid up the curve of her body to frame her face. “You are my only life, Raven. I will admit I took you from all you knew, but you were never meant to live in isolation. I know what that does, how desolate life can be. The people you worked for were using you up. Eventually they would have destroyed you. Can you not feel that you are my other half--that I am yours?” His mouth drifted over her eyes, her cheekbones, each corner of her mouth. “Kiss me, Raven. Remember me.” She lifted long lashes and searched his black, hungry gaze with blue eyes that had darkened to deep purple. There was a burning intensity in the heat of his gaze, of his body. “If I kiss you, Mikhail, I won’t be able to stop.