385 Quotes by Andre Gide

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

I have been scarcely been able to pray since I have been here: I have the childish feeling that God is no longer in the same place.

Aren’t you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

I took her hand trembling. "Whatever I hope to become later is for you.""But Jerome, I may leave you too." My soul went into my words: "I shall never leave you." She raised her shoulders slightly: "Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.