All Andre Gide Quotes
- Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Every Moment
- If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast! Cast
- An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back… Absent
- Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness Closed
- By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. Answers
- Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. Art
- There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. Another One
- Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'. All
- What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Demand
- The wise man is astonished by anything. Astonished
- Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do… Advantage
- True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. Empathy
- Not everyone can be an orphan. Everyone
- If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. Greatest
- I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. Advise
- The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my… Aphorism
- From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. Accompanying
- True eloquence forgoes eloquence. Eloquence
- The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my… Almost Never
- Whither should we aim if not towards God? Aim