Quotes From The Immoralist by André Gide

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

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

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

At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles—wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what your not.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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

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