Beauty Quotes by Marcel Proust

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

— Marcel Proust

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

— Marcel Proust

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

— Marcel Proust

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

— Marcel Proust

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”

— Marcel Proust

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may…

— Marcel Proust

“Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which…

— Marcel Proust

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

— Marcel Proust

“Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face…

— Marcel Proust

“To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be…

— Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

— Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is…

— Marcel Proust

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,…

— Marcel Proust

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of…

— Marcel Proust

“And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all…

— Marcel Proust

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still…

— Marcel Proust

“And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to…

— Marcel Proust

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last…

— Marcel Proust

“For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more…

— Marcel Proust

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to…

— Marcel Proust

“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's…

— Marcel Proust

“There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise.…

— 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

“Part of the beauty—and it is the original flaw in this type of literature, from which the famous Lundis are not exempt—lies…

— Marcel Proust

“It seemed to me that the beauty of the trees was hers also, and that, as for the spirit of those horizons,…

— Marcel Proust