Quotes by Andre Gide

About Andre Gide:

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
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Dezgustată de pozitivismul vieţii,sufletul său închis şi umilit începea să iubească poezia.Lua drept poetic tot ceea ce o ajuta să evadeze din viaţă.

Andre Gide

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Andre Gide

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Andre Gide

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre 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.

Andre Gide

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

Andre Gide

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

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Andre Gide

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre 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.

Andre Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Andre Gide

Author Bio

  • NameAndre Gide
  • DescriptionFrench novelist and essayist
  • AliasesAndré Paul Guillaume Gide
  • BornNovember 22, 1869
  • DiedFebruary 19, 1951
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionJournalist; Film Producer; Essayist; Playwright; Novelist; Diarist; Travel Writer; Translator; Autobiographer; Writer
  • WorksThe Immoralist; Strait Is The Gate; La Symphonie Pastorale; The Counterfeiters
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature