The Little Prince

Character in The Little Prince From: The Little Prince

Young prince protagonist who speaks profound philosophical truths about life, love, and human nature

189 quotes

"All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people."
"Where are the people? It is a little lonely in the desert."
"I am who I am because of who we all are."
Relationships
"The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen."
Beauty
"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love."
Love
"A person is a person through other persons."
Relationships
"I should have understood her through her actions, not her words."
"It took me a long time to learn where she came from."
Knowledge
"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them."
Wisdom
"One cannot be unhappy when one has a flower."
Happiness
"You're beautiful, but you're empty. One couldn't die for you."
Love
"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone had a friend."
Friendship
"Perhaps I ought to try to go back to where I came from."
Hope
"I am looking for friends. What does that mean?"
Friendship
"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
Wisdom
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
Perseverance
"Arithmetic! You have such a way of reducing everything to numbers."
Philosophy
"You men are strange creatures."
Humor
"My rose is unique because of all the care I have given her."
Love
"Stars cannot be counted, but they can be loved."
Imagination
"Your flower taught me that beauty is fragile."
Beauty
"The baobabs are a menace. They must be destroyed."
Nature
"A person is nothing at all without his flowers."
Love
"It matters very much which sheep it is."
Wisdom
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves."
Wisdom
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
Hope
"The stars are beautiful because of a flower that cannot be seen."
Beauty
"I am who I am and nothing will change that."
"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night."
Love
"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides."