Andre Gide Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Andre Gide

  Life, Travel, Adventure

• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

• There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

• 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

  Life, Spring, Real

• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Soul, Sin

  "La Symphonie Pastorale". Book by André Gide, 1919.

• Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

  Andre Gide

  Life, May, Fresh Start

• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Success, Butterfly

• Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Change, Long

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

  Andre Gide

  Life, Literature, Action

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