meaning Quotes

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm;... ...

"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning."

"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."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

"To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is... ...

"One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love."

"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a... ...

"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."