385 Quotes by Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.