Andre Gide Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Hate, Men

• 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 on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Age, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

• At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

  Andre Gide

  Birthday, Real, Wrinkles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

• Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Youth, Chaste

• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

  Andre Gide

  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

• When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Indignant, Old Age

• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

  Andre Gide

  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

  Andre Gide

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Becoming, Virtue

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