Quote

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

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
Prompts
Writes
Madness
Written
Beautiful
Reason
Writing
Things

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
Image
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Image
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
Image
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide
Image
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
Image
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
Image
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
Image
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
Image
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
Image
The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide
Image
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
Image
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
Andre Gide
Image
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
Andre Gide
Image
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre Gide
Image
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Andre Gide