People Quotes by Marcel Proust

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

— Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

— Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

— Marcel Proust

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

— Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

— Marcel Proust

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

— Marcel Proust

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”

— Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

— Marcel Proust

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own…

— Marcel Proust

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom…

— Marcel Proust

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

— Marcel Proust

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we…

— Marcel Proust

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

— Marcel Proust

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

— Marcel Proust

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that…

— Marcel Proust

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which…

— Marcel Proust

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people…

— Marcel Proust

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon…

— Marcel Proust

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth…

— Marcel Proust

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do…

— Marcel Proust

“She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the…

— Marcel Proust

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This…

— Marcel Proust

We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,…

— 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

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and…

— Marcel Proust

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the…

— Marcel Proust

When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People…

— Marcel Proust

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed…

— Marcel Proust

Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it…

— Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

— Marcel Proust

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure…

— Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

— Marcel Proust

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

— Marcel Proust

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

— Marcel Proust

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is…

— Marcel Proust

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to…

— Marcel Proust

And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss…

— 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