Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about André Gide
André Gide -
Joy
Quotes
4 Sourced Quotes
View all André Gide Quotes
Source
Report...
When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.
André Gide
Source
Report...
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.
André Gide
Source
Report...
We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
André Gide
Source
Report...
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
André Gide
Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
André Gide
Creative Commons
Born:
November 22, 1869
Died:
February 19, 1951
(aged 81)
More about André Gide...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
