Andre Gide Quotes about Life

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

Love, Inspirational, Life

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Andre Gide

Life, Long, Doe

"If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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

Life, Spring, Real

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

Life, Work, Failure

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

Life, Success, Butterfly

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Andre Gide

Life, Soul, Sin

"La Symphonie Pastorale". Book by André Gide, 1919.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

Life, Future, Mean

"Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.