385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

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

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.