Quotes from books

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing... not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "Land of People"

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out... we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night... and thus we wait for morning.

Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

If you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Mothers are all slightly insane.

J. D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"

- One day I saw the sunset forty-four times! You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...
- Were you so sad, then? On the day of the forty-four sunsets?
But the Little Prince made no reply.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Erich Maria Remarque, "Arch of Triumph"

- Why are you drinking?
- So that I may forget.
- Forget what?
- Forget that I am ashamed.
- Ashamed of what?
- Ashamed of drinking!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. 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-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet On The Western Front"