Andre Gide Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Andre Gide:

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Andre Gide

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Andre Gide

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Andre Gide

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

Andre Gide

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Andre Gide

The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide