Quote

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Achieved
Depends
Literature

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
Image
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
Image
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Image
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
Image
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
Image
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
Image
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
Image
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
Image
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
Image
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
Image
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
Image
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
Image
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
Image
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Andre Gide
Image
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Andre Gide