Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Writer
Says
Company
Reading
Read
Idea
Merely
Ideas
Travel
Motivational
More quotes by Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
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
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
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
Andre Gide
The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
