top of page

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Nothing quotes

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."
Explore more quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."


"I wonder, he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."


"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."


"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."


"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."


"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head."Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him."Ashamed of drinking!"


"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
bottom of page