Marcel Proust Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Marcel Proust quotes, Marcel Proust sayings, and Marcel Proust proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. Marcel Proust
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. Marcel Proust
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Marcel Proust
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Marcel Proust
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. Marcel Proust
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us. Marcel Proust
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. Marcel Proust
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. Marcel Proust
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. Marcel Proust
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. Marcel Proust
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern. Marcel Proust
When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, 'What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one's future happiness lies in the answer. Marcel Proust
The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May. Marcel Proust
Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people. Marcel Proust
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy—they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. Marcel Proust