André Gide quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. (André Gide)
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
André Gide
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
André Gide
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
André Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
André Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
André Gide
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
André Gide
Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (André Gide)
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
André Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
André Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
André Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
André Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
André Gide
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
André Gide
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
André Gide
Prejudices are the props of civilization. (André Gide)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
André Gide
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
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
André Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
André Gide