385 Quotes by Andre Gide

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation.

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes.

In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death’s reach.

We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Other people’s appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn’t share them.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.