1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.