Quote

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

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
Action
Life
Unconsidered
Decisive
Actions
Literature
Often

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Andre Gide
Image
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
Image
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Image
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Andre Gide
Image
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Andre Gide
Image
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
Image
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Andre Gide
Image
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Andre Gide
Image
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Andre Gide
Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
Andre Gide
Image
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
Image
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
Andre Gide
Image
Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
Image
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
Image
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide