Imagination Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image “Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Inspirational Men Suffering
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
