Andre Gide Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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

  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

• Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

  Andre Gide

  Unique, Joy, Preparation

• Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Happiness, Remembrance, Joy

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Happiness, Struggle

• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

  Andre Gide

  Kindness, Empathy, Joy

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

• I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Defiance

• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

  Andre Gide

  Angel, Play, Joy

• From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Despair, Desire

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Mind, Needs

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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