André Gide > Quotes

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― André Gide

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
― André Gide

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
― André Gide

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― André Gide

“The color of truth is grey.”
― André Gide

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― André Gide

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― André Gide

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
― André Gide

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”
― André Gide

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
― André Gide

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”
― André Gide

“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”
― André Gide

“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
― André Gide

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”
― André Gide

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”
― André Gide

“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
― André Gide

“Dare to be yourself”
― André Gide

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
― André Gide

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.”
― André Gide

“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”
― André Gide

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”
― André Gide, Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

“ose devenir qui tu es”
― André Gide

“Parce que ma bouche se tait, pensez-vous que mon coeur se repose?”
― André Gide

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”
― André Gide, Journals, 1889-1949

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― André Gide

“I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”
― André Gide, If it Die...

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
― André Gide

“Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise meme est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?”
― André Gide

“No hay problemas, solo soluciones.”
― André Gide

“لاشئ يحبط أكثر من الفكر
الذى يلح على الانسان...”
― André Gide

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time”
― André Gide

“The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.”
― André Gide

“هیچ چیز به اندازه خاطره خوشبختی مانع
خوشبختی نیست
(رذل)”
― André Gide

“Nos actes s'attachent a nous comme sa lueur au phosphore. Ils nous consument, il est vrai, mais il nous font notre splendeur.”
― André Gide

“Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran.”
― André Gide

“اگر روح ما ارزش چیزی را داشته دلیل بر آن است که سخت تر از دیگران سوخته!”
― André Gide

“The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.”
― André Gide

“ما أكثر الأشياء التي كان من السهل الإقدام عليها لولا تلك الاعتراضات التي يتفنن الانسان في ابتكارها لنفسه وكثيرا ما حيل بيننا وبين هذا العمل أو ذاك لأننا قد سمعنا صوتا من داخلنا او من المحيطين بنا يقول لنا :اننا لن نقدر عليه
ولو لم نسمع هذا الصوت ونستجيب له لكشفت لنا التجربة عن نيله والفوز به ”
― André Gide, السيمفونية الريفية

“Que ta vision soit à chaque instant nouvelle. Le sage est celui qui s'étonne de tout.”
― André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures

“...Que ton désir soit de l'amour, et que ta possession soit amoureuse.”
― André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures

“Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.”
― André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures

“El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.”
― André Gide

“Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.”
― André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures