Andre Gide Quotes

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Independence ... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

Everybody's somebody's everything

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.