Certain Quotes by Marcel Proust

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

— Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom…

— Marcel Proust

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

— Marcel Proust

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There…

— Marcel Proust

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in…

— Marcel Proust

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from…

— Marcel Proust

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that…

— 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

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we…

— 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

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,…

— Marcel Proust

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,…

— Marcel Proust

There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a…

— Marcel Proust

It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event…

— Marcel Proust

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at…

— Marcel Proust

At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and…

— Marcel Proust

Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,…

— Marcel Proust

The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he…

— Marcel Proust

Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is…

— Marcel Proust

After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are…

— Marcel Proust

Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find…

— Marcel Proust

The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater…

— Marcel Proust

The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain…

— Marcel Proust

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,…

— Marcel Proust