“Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was genuinely in love with Mme. de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...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… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
