André Gide: Quotes about love

André Gide was French novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

André Gide: 148 quotes18 likes

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

Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

André Gide

Source: Prometheus Illbound

“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

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”

André Gide

La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.
Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I
Source: Autumn Leaves

“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.”

André Gide

Entry for January 21, 1929
Journals 1889-1949