André Gide Exploration Quotes

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

- André Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

- André Gide

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

- André Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

- André Gide

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

- André Gide

Envying another man's happiness is madness, You wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

- André Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

- André Gide

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

- André Gide

I do not love men, I love what devours them

- André Gide

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

- André Gide

The color of truth is grey.

- André Gide

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

- André Gide