--- title: "8 Impression Quotes By Marcel Proust" description: "8 Impression quotes by Marcel Proust. Plus more from Marcel Proust and more Impression sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/545/marcel-proust-114_appearance_this-labour-of-the-artist-to-discover-a_108060.jpg" --- > [This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/this-labour-of-the-artist-to-discover-a-means-of-apprehending-beneath/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/545/marcel-proust-114_appearance_this-labour-of-the-artist-to-discover-a_108060.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) > [“An impression of love is out of proportion to the other impressions of life, but when it is lost in their midst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/an-impression-of-love-is-out-of-proportion-to-the-other-impressions/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/marcel-proust-114_life_an-impression-of-love-is-out-of-proporti_1497985.jpg) > [Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/even-the-simple-act-that-we-call-going-to-visit-a-person-of-our/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/marcel-proust-114_acquaintance_even-the-simple-act-that-we-call-going-t_1791599.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) > [For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/for-what-we-suppose-to-be-our-love-or-our-jealousy-is-never-a-single/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/marcel-proust-114_continuity_for-what-we-suppose-to-be-our-love-or-ou_2452461.jpg) > [When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-one-becomes-for-an-instant-one-s-former-self-that-is-to-say/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/marcel-proust-114_different_when-one-becomes-for-an-instant-one-s-fo_2678277.jpg) > [“The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-impression-is-for-the-writer-what-experiment-is-for-the-scientist/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e24/marcel-proust-114_impression_the-impression-is-for-the-writer-what-ex_2842513.jpg) ## Other authors on Impression ## 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/impression/marcel-proust/#itemlist", "name": "8 Impression Quotes By Marcel Proust", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", 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