André Gide Zitate

„Es ist besser, für das gehasst zu werden, was man ist, als für das geliebt zu werden, das man nicht ist.“

„Ein gerader Weg führt immer nur ans Ziel.“

„Das Geheimnis des Glücks liegt nicht im Besitz, sondern im Geben. Wer andere glücklich macht, wird glücklich.“

„Nicht wissen, wen man zum Vater hat, ist ein Mittel gegen die Furcht, ihm ähnlich zu sein.“

„Traurigkeit ist fast nichts anderes als eine Form von Müdigkeit.“

„Ich glaube, nichts lehrt einen besser Bescheidenheit, als wenn man einen wertvollen Menschen liebt.“

„André Gide soll gesagt haben: ‚Oft merkt man nicht, wenn sich eine Tür schließt, dass sich eine andere öffnet.‘“

„Glaube denen, die die Wahrheit suchen, und zweifle an denen, die sie gefunden haben.“

„Das ist das Eigentümliche an der Liebe, dass sie niemals gleich bleiben kann; sie muss unaufhörlich wachsen, wenn sie nicht abnehmen soll.“

„Mit den schönen Gefühlen macht man die schlechte Literatur.“

„Jeder Schweizer trägt seine Gletscher in sich.“

„Theorie des Buches: toter Buchstabe? Ein Sack Samenkörner.“

„Die Unannehmlichkeiten an einer allzugut vorbereiteten Reise ist, dass das Abenteuer darin nicht genügend Raum hat“

„Wenn heutzutage die Männer ernster sind als die Frauen, so deshalb, weil ihre Kleidung nicht mehr so farbenprächtig ist wie in vergangen Zeiten.“

„Wenn ein Philosoph einem antwortet, versteht man überhaupt nicht mehr, was man ihn gefragt hat.“

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

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”

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

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.”

“The color of truth is grey.”

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

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

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

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

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

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

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

“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.”

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

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

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”

“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?”

“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”

“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”

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

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”