385 Quotes by Andre Gide

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.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Man’s first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art – supreme art – is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.