385 Quotes by Andre Gide

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.