“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
More from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
“I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”
“If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
“Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“There is no hope or joy except in human relations.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”