Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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
Nothing
Remembrance
Fatal
Joy
Happiness
More quotes by Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
Andre Gide
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Andre Gide
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
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
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
The wise man is astonished by anything.
Andre Gide
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Andre Gide
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
Andre Gide
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Andre Gide
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
