Dreams Quotes by Marcel Proust

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

— Marcel Proust

“Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.”

— Marcel Proust

“We have of the universe only inchoate, fragmentary visions, which we complement by arbitrary associations of ideas, creative of dangerous illusions.”

— Marcel Proust

“And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”

— Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all…

— Marcel Proust

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

— Marcel Proust

“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die,…

— Marcel Proust

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he…

— Marcel Proust

“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,…

— Marcel Proust

“In vain I called upon it now. In vain I compressed the whole landscape into my field of vision, draining it with…

— Marcel Proust

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has…

— Marcel Proust

Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the…

— Marcel Proust

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which…

— Marcel Proust

A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,…

— Marcel Proust

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort…

— Marcel Proust

“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment…

— Marcel Proust

“Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases…

— Marcel Proust

“And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied…

— Marcel Proust

“Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster…

— Marcel Proust

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

“Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped position of…

— Marcel Proust

“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all…

— Marcel Proust

“I would revisit them all in the long course of my waking dream: rooms in winter, where on going to bed I…

— Marcel Proust

“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot…

— Marcel Proust

“And even in my most carnal desires, oriented always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognized…

— Marcel Proust

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.…

— Marcel Proust

We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived…

— Marcel Proust