Words matter. These are the best Marcel Proust Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.