385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

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

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.