Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre GideRead
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is the most valuable thing we have, surpassing all material possessions.
In this quote, Andre Gide emphasizes that our existence and the experiences that come with it are of the utmost importance. All material possessions are ultimately transient and insignificant when compared to the richness of life itself, urging us to appreciate and prioritize our living experiences over material wealth.
Themes
LifeValueExistencePossessionsImportance
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about personal growth and self-worth.
More from Andre Gide
All quotes βDo not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre GideRead
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre GideRead
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre GideRead
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Andre GideRead
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre GideRead
Similar quotes
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McluhanRead
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
Ernest BeckerRead
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
John PiperRead
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
J. M. CoetzeeRead
Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.
Christopher HitchensRead
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.
Clive BarkerRead