Love Quotes by Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture.

— Marcel Proust

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

— Marcel Proust

“One can seldom admire what one loves.”

— Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom

— Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

— Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

— Marcel Proust

“Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.”

— Marcel Proust

“Love teaches us much, but also it much corrupts us.”

— Marcel Proust

“The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else.”

— Marcel Proust

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

— Marcel Proust

Love…, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

— Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

— Marcel Proust

“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.”

— Marcel Proust

“Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.”

— Marcel Proust

“For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.”

— Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

— Marcel Proust

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

— Marcel Proust

“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies…

— Marcel Proust

“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in…

— Marcel Proust

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we…

— Marcel Proust

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the…

— Marcel Proust

“As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I…

— Marcel Proust

We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,…

— Marcel Proust

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become…

— Marcel Proust

It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual…

— Marcel Proust

“With the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who…

— Marcel Proust

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,…

— Marcel Proust

“Although she failed to grasp the meaning of this speech, she did understand that it might belong to the category of 'scoldings'…

— Marcel Proust

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me…

— Marcel Proust

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity…

— Marcel Proust

When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within…

— Marcel Proust

For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent…

— Marcel Proust

“what we love is too much in the past, consists too much in the time that we have spent together for us…

— Marcel Proust

“At the start of a new love as its ending, we are not exclusively attached to the object of that love, but…

— Marcel Proust

“There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from…

— Marcel Proust

This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real…

— Marcel Proust

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…

— Marcel Proust

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still…

— Marcel Proust

“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame…

— Marcel Proust

It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world…

— Marcel Proust