Heart Quotes by Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

— Marcel Proust

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

— Marcel Proust

The heart does not lie.

— Marcel Proust

“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.”

— Marcel Proust

“It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.”

— Marcel Proust

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

— Marcel Proust

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

— Marcel Proust

“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.”

— Marcel Proust

“One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting…

— 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

“That is rather Pelléas, too,” I suggested to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin. “You know the scene I mean.” “Of course I do” was…

— 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”…

— Marcel Proust

“Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world…

— Marcel Proust

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only,"…

— Marcel Proust

“I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased…

— Marcel Proust

“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage…

— Marcel Proust

“It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from…

— Marcel Proust

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy…

— Marcel Proust

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing…

— 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

“But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the…

— Marcel Proust

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some…

— Marcel Proust

“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience…

— 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