“Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.”
More from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Life
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
“Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world.”
“Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”