"It is always thus, impelled by a state……" — Marcel Proust
"It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"
Related Quotes
- Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends… — William Shakespeare
- We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final… — Carl Jung
- The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade. — Gay Hendricks
- What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate. — Carl Jung
- All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. — Marcel Proust
- ...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved — Seneca the Younger
- We must break the mental patterns that no longer serve us, and we have the power to consciously choose thoughts… — Senoraroy
- I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment — Henri Bergson
- We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of… — Adyashanti
303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we…
- A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon…
- Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is…
- The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards…
- There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
- The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other…
- If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not…
- The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction…
- There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a…
- Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…
More Always Thus Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Thus Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: