1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.