Suffering Quotes by Marcel Proust

“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.”

— Marcel Proust

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

— Marcel Proust

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

“I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.”

— Marcel Proust

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

— Marcel Proust

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state,…

— Marcel Proust

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which…

— Marcel Proust

“It is to such sufferings that we attach the pleasure of loving, of delighting in the most insignificant remarks of a woman,…

— Marcel Proust

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our…

— 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…

— Marcel Proust

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a…

— Marcel Proust

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,…

— Marcel Proust

How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in…

— Marcel Proust

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom…

— Marcel Proust

“The suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything…

— Marcel Proust

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another…

— Marcel Proust

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that…

— 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

“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere…

— Marcel Proust

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his…

— Marcel Proust

“This torture inflicted on her by my great-aunt, the sight of my grandmother's vain entreaties, of her feeble attempts, doomed in advance,…

— Marcel Proust

“At every new torment which is too hard to bear we feel yet another vein protrude, to unroll its sinuous and deadly…

— Marcel Proust

“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes…

— Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she…

— 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

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become…

— Marcel Proust

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing…

— Marcel Proust

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which…

— Marcel Proust

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and…

— Marcel Proust

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting…

— 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

“In reality, there is in love a permanent strain of suffering which happiness neutralises, makes potential only, postpones, but which may at…

— Marcel Proust

“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with…

— Marcel Proust