--- title: "25 Certain Quotes By Marcel Proust" description: "25 Certain quotes by Marcel Proust. Plus more from Marcel Proust and more Certain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/marcel-proust-114_age_after-a-certain-age-the-more-one-becomes_1745710.jpg" --- > [After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/after-a-certain-age-the-more-one-becomes-oneself-the-more-obvious-one/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/marcel-proust-114_age_after-a-certain-age-the-more-one-becomes_1745710.jpg) > [Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/those-whose-suffering-is-due-to-love-are-as-we-say-of-certain/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/marcel-proust-114_certain_those-whose-suffering-is-due-to-love-are_1930169.jpg) > [Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/only-imagination-and-belief-can-differentiate-from-the-rest-certain/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/marcel-proust-114_art_only-imagination-and-belief-can-differen_2055318.jpg) > [When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-we-have-passed-a-certain-age-the-soul-of-the-child-we-were-and/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/marcel-proust-114_age_when-we-have-passed-a-certain-age-the-so_1730966.jpg) > [After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/after-a-certain-age-our-memories-are-so-intertwined-with-one-another/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9df/marcel-proust-114_advertisements_after-a-certain-age-our-memories-are-so_3136775.jpg) > [Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/daughters-of-the-attitude-that-produced-them-certain-women-will-not/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af0/marcel-proust-114_appeals_daughters-of-the-attitude-that-produced_2432985.jpg) > [The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-places-we-have-known-do-not-belong-solely-to-the-world-of-space/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b74/marcel-proust-114_certain_the-places-we-have-known-do-not-belong-s_1098202.jpg) > [The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-heart-changes-but-we-learn-of-it-only-from-reading-or-by/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/marcel-proust-114_able_the-heart-changes-but-we-learn-of-it-onl_870561.jpg) > [Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/reading-is-at-the-threshold-of-the-spiritual-life-it-can-introduce-us/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/marcel-proust-114_cases_reading-is-at-the-threshold-of-the-spiri_1325022.jpg) > [We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/we-say-that-the-hour-of-death-cannot-be-forecast-but-when-we-say-this/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cca/marcel-proust-114_after-death_we-say-that-the-hour-of-death-cannot-be_1822340.jpg) > [When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-we-have-passed-a-certain-age-the-soul-of-the-child-that-we-were/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/marcel-proust-114_age_when-we-have-passed-a-certain-age-the-so_3081257.jpg) > [Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/certain-favourite-roles-are-played-by-us-so-often-before-the-public/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/marcel-proust-114_certain_certain-favourite-roles-are-played-by-us_159149.jpg) > [The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-great-renunciation-of-old-age-as-it-prepared-for-death-wraps/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e9/marcel-proust-114_age_the-great-renunciation-of-old-age-as-it_575215.jpg) > [At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/at-a-certain-age-we-have-already-been-struck-by-love-it-no-longer/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/marcel-proust-114_admiration_at-a-certain-age-we-have-already-been-st_3169067.jpg) > [The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-soldier-is-convinced-that-a-certain-indefinitely-extendable-time/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/marcel-proust-114_amulet_the-soldier-is-convinced-that-a-certain_2990297.jpg) > [Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/reading-is-at-the-threshold-of-spiritual-life-it-can-introduce-us-to/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/marcel-proust-114_cases_reading-is-at-the-threshold-of-spiritual_2350670.jpg) > [Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/now-the-same-mystery-which-often-veils-from-our-eyes-the-reason-for-a/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/marcel-proust-114_catastrophe_now-the-same-mystery-which-often-veils-f_336368.jpg) > [There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/there-is-no-man-however-wise-who-has-not-at-some-period-of-his-youth-2/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/marcel-proust-114_being-wise_there-is-no-man-however-wise-who-has-not_2179191.jpg) > [There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/there-is-probably-not-one-person-however-great-his-virtue-who-cannot/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/816/marcel-proust-114_attitude_there-is-probably-not-one-person-however_415547.jpg) > [Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/life-is-extraordinarily-suave-and-sweet-with-certain-natural-witty/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/560/marcel-proust-114_affectionate_life-is-extraordinarily-suave-and-sweet_1234122.jpg) > [A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/a-certain-similarity-exists-although-the-type-evolves-between-all-the/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68e/marcel-proust-114_certain_a-certain-similarity-exists-although-the_1073139.jpg) > [The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-reason-why-life-may-be-judged-to-be-trivial-although-at-certain/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66f/marcel-proust-114_beautiful_the-reason-why-life-may-be-judged-to-be_2163628.jpg) > [The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-truth-has-no-need-to-be-uttered-to-be-made-apparent-and-one-may/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/marcel-proust-114_accounts_the-truth-has-no-need-to-be-uttered-to-b_2361261.jpg) > [For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/for-women-who-do-not-love-us-as-for-the-disappeared-knowing-that-we/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c59/marcel-proust-114_certain_for-women-who-do-not-love-us-as-for-the_70458.jpg) > [It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/it-seems-that-certain-transcendental-realities-emit-rays-to-which-the/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/marcel-proust-114_army_it-seems-that-certain-transcendental-rea_1466297.jpg) ## Other authors on Certain ## More by Marcel Proust > [“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/machinery-of-life-at-versailles-and-was-able-too-to-persuade-herself/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [ “For her \[Françoise\], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/for-her-fran-oise-wealth-was-like-a-necessary-condition-without-which/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/knowing-does-not-always-allow-us-to-prevent-but-at-least-the-things/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Death is in truth an illness from which we recover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/death-is-in-truth-an-illness-from-which-we-recover/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-bonds-that-unite-another-person-to-our-self-exist-only-in-our-mind/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/a-writer-s-works-like-the-water-in-an-artesian-well-mount-to-a-height/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/then-from-those-profound-slumbers-we-awake-in-a-dawn-not-knowing-who/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/art-extracted-from-the-most-familiar-reality-does-indeed-exist-and/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/i-find-very-reasonable-the-celtic-belief-that-the-souls-of-our-dearly/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-you-heard-anyone-in-the-middle-of-a-talk-which-was-being/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/we-betroth-ourselves-by-proxy-and-then-feel-obliged-to-marry-the/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/but-the-old-lady-on-the-contrary-far-from-justifying-her-daughter-s/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/often-it-is-just-lack-of-imagination-that-keeps-a-man-from-suffering/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-we-are-nice-to-others-we-generally-lose-all-claim-to-their/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/nobility-is-often-no-more-than-the-inner-aspect-which-our-egotistical/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/marcel-proust/#itemlist", "name": "25 Certain Quotes By Marcel Proust", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcel Proust" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/after-a-certain-age-the-more-one-becomes-oneself-the-more-obvious-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/marcel-proust-114_age_after-a-certain-age-the-more-one-becomes_1745710.jpg", "contentUrl": 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