Frases de André Gide

“El secreto de mi felicidad está en no esforzarse por el placer, sino en encontrar el placer en el esfuerzo.”

“Cree a aquellos que buscan la verdad, duda de los que la han encontrado.”

“La sabiduría no viene de la razón sino del amor.”

“Las cosas más bellas son las que inspira la locura y escribe la razón.”

“Todas las cosas adquieren importancia para nosotros en cuanto nos damos cuenta de que existen.”

“Si de verdad quieres ser feliz, no caigas en la tentación de comparar este momento con otros momentos del pasado, que a su vez no supiste gozar porque los comparabas con los momentos que habían de llegar.”

“El color de la verdad es gris.”

“El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.”

“No creer en Dios es mucho más difícil de lo que se piensa. Para seguir haciéndolo es necesario abstenerse de mirar la Naturaleza y de reflexionar sobre lo que vemos.”

“Diríase que el amor se ha prostituido, al pasar por el corazón de tantos imbéciles".”

“Solo las almas muy banales alcanzan fácilmente la expresión sincera de su personalidad. Pues una personalidad nueva solo se expresa sinceramente en una forma nueva. La frase que nos es personal ha de ser tan particularmente difícil de tensar como el arco de Ulises”

“Hemos construido catedrales inmóviles en la arena.”

“No se descubren nuevos continentes si no se tiene el valor de perder de vista las viejas orillas.”

“Que mi libro te enseñe a interesarte más en ti mismo que en él, luego, en todo el mundo más que en ti mismo.”

“No hay problemas, solo soluciones.”

“No estoy ni triste ni alegre; este aire de aquí te llena de una muy vaga exaltación y te hace conocer un estado que parece tan lejano de la alegría como de la pena; quizá esto sea la felicidad.”

“Sabio es aquel que constantemente se maravilla.”

“El poeta cree que cuando muera se irá volando con todo y cama, derechito al cielo”

“… y tomando por tierra firme el flotante tapiz de flores, perdió pie bruscamente”

“Todo está dicho, pero como nadie escucha, hay que repetirlo cada mañana.”

“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.”