Andre Gide Quotations | Page 2

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.