Andre Gide Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Soul, Sin

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

• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Soul, Atheism

• 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

• If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

  Andre Gide

  Mirrors, Soul, Casts

• To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

  Andre Gide

  Philosophical, Soul, Awkward

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