385 Quotes by Andre Gide

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

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

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The fear of finding oneself alone – that is what they suffer from – and so they don’t find themselves at all.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan’t be able to prevent.

It is good to follow one’s own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing...

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