André Gide Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

2. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Autumn Leaves

3. The color of truth is grey.

4. What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. The Immoralist

5. He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

6. Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life. The Immoralist