Andre Gide Quotes

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."
-Andre Gide

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
-Andre Gide in Hate quotes.

"Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys."
-Andre Gide

"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
-Andre Gide

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
-Andre Gide

"Dare to be yourself."
-Andre Gide

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-Andre Gide in Inspiration quotes.

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide in Truth quotes.

"If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so."
-Andre Gide

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
-Andre Gide

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
-Andre Gide

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
-Andre Gide in Mankind quotes.

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. "
-Andre Gide

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"
-Andre Gide in Confidence quotes.

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
-Andre Gide in Beauty quotes.

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
-Andre Gide in Art quotes.

"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."
-Andre Gide

"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
-Andre Gide in Freedom quotes.

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
-Andre 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."
-Andre Gide