Psychology Quotes by Marcel Proust

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

— Marcel Proust

“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

— Marcel Proust

“It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

— Marcel Proust

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it…

— Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

— Marcel Proust

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

— Marcel Proust

“... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes …”

— Marcel Proust

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long…

— Marcel Proust

“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my…

— Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

— Marcel Proust

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such…

— Marcel Proust

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope…

— Marcel Proust

“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.”

— Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

— Marcel Proust

“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,…

— Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it…

— Marcel Proust

“When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes…

— Marcel Proust

“We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always,…

— Marcel Proust

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is…

— Marcel Proust

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the…

— Marcel Proust

“The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above…

— Marcel Proust

“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because…

— 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

“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour…

— Marcel Proust

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which…

— Marcel Proust

“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind…

— Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding…

— Marcel Proust

“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled…

— Marcel Proust

And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to…

— 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

“lived within a mile of the place." My grandmother, who held that, when one went to the seaside, one ought to be…

— Marcel Proust

“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all…

— Marcel Proust

“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through…

— Marcel Proust

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial…

— Marcel Proust

“This new concept of the "finest, highest achievement of art" had no sooner entered my mind than it located the imperfect enjoyment…

— Marcel Proust

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not…

— Marcel Proust

“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.”

— Marcel Proust

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

— Marcel Proust