All Andre Gide Quotes
- Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… Arrives
- Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not… Aside
- Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… Ardor
- Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend. All
- I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… Account
- In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... Awkward
- The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only… Acclaim
- One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing. Consequently
- Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. According
- We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. Counterfeit
- Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death Death
- Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. Age
- Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. Drunkenness
- The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. Artist
- It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily… Daily
- The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be… Allow
- Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. Beautiful
- A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. Anywhere
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Adventure
- Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. All