World Quotes by Marcel Proust

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

— Marcel Proust

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

— Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

— Marcel Proust

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

— Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

— Marcel Proust

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it…

— Marcel Proust

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…

— Marcel Proust

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the…

— 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

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or…

— Marcel Proust

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not…

— Marcel Proust

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…

— Marcel Proust

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references,…

— Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

— Marcel Proust

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and…

— Marcel Proust

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do…

— 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

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

— 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

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,…

— Marcel Proust

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at…

— Marcel Proust

The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater…

— 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

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 collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…

— Marcel Proust

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still…

— 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

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as…

— 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

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our…

— Marcel Proust