Friendship Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To forget a friend is sad.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The presence of a friend who is far away can sometimes feel denser than his physical presence in a room.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I am grateful to you for taking me as you find me. What do I want with a friend who judges me?”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“But I made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“So, my friend, I need you as I need a high place where I can breathe freely. I need to sit beside…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

…if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I try to describe him here, it is so as not to forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Then only things you learn are the things you tame," said the fox. "People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Please-tame me!' he said. 'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It would have been better to come back at the same time of the day,'said the fox. 'For instance, if you come…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“How does life build the vital currents that we live from? Where does the magnetic force that pulls me toward this friend's…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They…

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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince. “You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“One only ever understands what one tames. People no longer have the time to understand anything. They buy everything ready-made from the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“People do not have time to know anything. They buy things ready, from sellers. But as there are no vendors of friends,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“he had been afraid of finding things quite different, and now it pained him to find them so unchanged. the prospect of…

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