On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable. — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. — Marcel Proust Moments Copy Share Image
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity” — Marcel Proust Thoughtful Copy Share Image
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust Anorexia Copy Share Image
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.” — Marcel Proust Clarity Copy Share Image
“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“That is rather Pelléas, too,” I suggested to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin. “You know the scene I mean.” “Of course I do” was… — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“His life and family circle changed considerably between 1900 and 1905. In February 1903, Proust's brother Robert married and left the family… — Marcel Proust Beloved mother Copy Share Image
“there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come;… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Giving Copy Share Image
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For in this respect love is not like war; after the battle is ended we renew the fight with keener ardour, which… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Pleasure Copy Share Image
“By shutting her eyes, by losing consciousness, Albertine had stripped off, one after another, the different human personalities with which we had… — Marcel Proust Full moon Copy Share Image
“We would come at length to the Mall, among whose treetops I could distinguish the steeple of Saint-Hilaire. And I should have… — Marcel Proust Hot sun Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“No doubt I had had experience with Gilberte of the danger of letters expressing an indifference which, feigned at first, ends by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour… — Marcel Proust Daybreak Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust Divorce Copy Share Image
“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.” — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
