Andre Gide Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• 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 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

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

  Andre Gide

  Age, Youth, Chaste

• 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

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