André Gide: Quotes about life

André Gide was French novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?… And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”

André Gide
Love , Life , Thinking , Heart

“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.”

André Gide

Les Faux Monnayeurs (1925), Pt. 3, ch. 16

Life , Decision , Future

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

André Gide

Source: Journals, 1889-1949

Life , Truth

“At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles—wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”

André Gide

“An Unprejudiced Mind,” pp. 319-320
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

Life , Youth , Age , Soul

“Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.”

André Gide

“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

Life , People , Education