Time Quotes by Marcel Proust

...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

— Marcel Proust

“I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.”

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

“For a long time I used to go to bed early.”

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

— Marcel Proust

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

— Marcel Proust

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”

— Marcel Proust

“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.”

— Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

— Marcel Proust

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

— Marcel Proust

“medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper…

— Marcel Proust

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in…

— Marcel Proust

“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were”

— Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and…

— Marcel Proust

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the…

— Marcel Proust

“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste…

— Marcel Proust

“there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but…

— Marcel Proust

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a…

— Marcel Proust

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the…

— Marcel Proust

“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket…

— Marcel Proust

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most…

— Marcel Proust

“...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus…

— Marcel Proust

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and…

— Marcel Proust

“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world…

— Marcel Proust

“The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and…

— Marcel Proust

“The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to…

— Marcel Proust

“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when…

— Marcel Proust

“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything,…

— 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

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring…

— Marcel Proust

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as…

— Marcel Proust

“Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at…

— 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

“And it was at that moment, too — thanks to a peasant who went past, apparently in a bad enough humour already,…

— 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

“And it is because they contain thus within themselves the hours of the past that human bodies have the power to hurt…

— Marcel Proust

“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment…

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“A woman sees herself dying, in these cases not at the actual moment of death but months, sometimes years before, when death…

— Marcel Proust

“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than…

— Marcel Proust