black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE

Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
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

Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE

Achievement Depend God
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE

Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Habit Live Resolution
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
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

Life Live Obligation Truth
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE

One Liner Sin Soul
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE

Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE

Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE

Poet Words Writing
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDE

Love Positive Reason Wisdom
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE

Fear Monster Warrant

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Andre Gide Quotes