Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Attitude, Philosophy

• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

• When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Lying, Eye

• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lying

• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Path, Portal

• Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Witty, Lying, Trying

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