Quote

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

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
Truth
Think
Thinking
Anyone
Found
Else

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
Andre Gide
Image
Long only for what you have.
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
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
Image
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
Image
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide
Image
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Andre Gide
Image
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
Image
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Andre Gide
Image
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
Image
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
Image
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide
Image
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide