Quotes by : André Gide

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not....

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live....

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass,....

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

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

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

The color of truth is grey.