Psychology Quotes by Marcel Proust

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

— Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

— Marcel Proust

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

— Marcel Proust

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

— Marcel Proust

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

— Marcel Proust

“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.”

— Marcel Proust

“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

— Marcel Proust

“Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby,…

— Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

— Marcel Proust

“...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance…

— Marcel Proust

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course…

— Marcel Proust

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…

— Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

— Marcel Proust

“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my…

— Marcel Proust

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long…

— Marcel Proust

“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied)…

— Marcel Proust

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom…

— Marcel Proust

We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in…

— Marcel Proust

“We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected…

— Marcel Proust

“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more,…

— Marcel Proust

“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one…

— Marcel Proust

“day. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that…

— Marcel Proust

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it…

— Marcel Proust

“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or…

— Marcel Proust

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.…

— Marcel Proust

“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that…

— Marcel Proust

And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to…

— Marcel Proust

“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled…

— Marcel Proust

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which…

— Marcel Proust

“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind…

— Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding…

— Marcel Proust

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not…

— Marcel Proust

“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all…

— Marcel Proust

“lived within a mile of the place." My grandmother, who held that, when one went to the seaside, one ought to be…

— Marcel Proust

“This new concept of the "finest, highest achievement of art" had no sooner entered my mind than it located the imperfect enjoyment…

— Marcel Proust

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial…

— Marcel Proust

“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through…

— Marcel Proust

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it…

— Marcel Proust

“It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust