Andre Gide Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Not everyone can be an orphan.”