385 Quotes by Andre Gide

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

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.

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

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

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

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.