Quotes by : Andre Gide

The color of truth is gray.

Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

Sadness is a state of sin.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other....

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Sadness is a state of sin.

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

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in....