Nature Quotes by Marcel Proust

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible…

— Marcel Proust

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

— Marcel Proust

“What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.”

— Marcel Proust

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else…

— Marcel Proust

“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue,…

— Marcel Proust

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can…

— Marcel Proust

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives…

— Marcel Proust

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of…

— Marcel Proust

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…

— Marcel Proust

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at…

— Marcel Proust

“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more…

— Marcel Proust

It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world…

— Marcel Proust

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He…

— Marcel Proust

“He laughingly expressed his surprise at having provoked such anger. Perhaps he said this in the hope of minimising in my eyes…

— Marcel Proust

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can…

— Marcel Proust

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,…

— Marcel Proust

If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…

— 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

“There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from…

— 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

“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one…

— Marcel Proust

“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be…

— Marcel Proust

“But if this desire that a woman should appear added for me something more exalting than the charms of nature, they in…

— Marcel Proust

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one…

— Marcel Proust

“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink…

— Marcel Proust

“His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is…

— Marcel Proust

“And between the earth and its creatures I made no distinction. I had a desire for a peasant-girl from Méséglise or Roussainville,…

— Marcel Proust

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's…

— Marcel Proust

“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the…

— Marcel Proust

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,…

— Marcel Proust

“I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great…

— Marcel Proust

“They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its…

— Marcel Proust

“for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself…

— Marcel Proust

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so…

— Marcel Proust

“The woods, the vines, the very stones, were at one with the brightness of the sun and the unblemished sky, and even…

— Marcel Proust

“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract…

— Marcel Proust

“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read…

— Marcel Proust

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does…

— Marcel Proust