97 Wonderful Marcel Proust Quotes That You Must Share
Marcel Proust or Valentin Loius Eugene Marcel Proust was a French essayist, novelist and critic, better known for his phenomenal work in ‘A la recherché temps perdu’ (In Search of lost time). The novel was pseudo autobiographical in nature, narrated in a stream-of-conscious style. Marcel Proust released several volumes of this novel as ‘Swann’s way’ and ‘Within a Budding grove’ and many more. He is considered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century by the English critics. He was an active member of the Parisian High society but started withdrawing himself from socializing due to his homosexuality and religion (as he was a Jew). His devoted a lot of his writing highlighting the absurdity and anomaly of human behavior coupled with an element of humor in them. We have curated some of the most famous Marcel Proust quotes from his writings, observations and his life. Here is a collection of Marcel Proust quotes on adultery, art, belief, books, character, death, desire, dreams, earth, emotions, fashion, friendship, giving, grief, happiness, history, life, learning, Inspirational, joy, knowledge, philosophy, and much more.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..
One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
