Proust Quotes – Insights into Life and Literature
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
The only true paradises are the paradises we have lost.
A man cannot be judged by the end of his life but by the continuity of it.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The real novelty is that grace enters into us when we become aware of our voids.
There is no greater joy than to feel the embrace of the beloved.
The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind.
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
To love is to risk being rejected. To reject is to risk being alone.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
What we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion.
The greater part of our memory exists outside us, in a blatter of rain, in the smell of an unaired room or of the first crackling brushwood fire in a cold grate.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
People do not die for us immediately, but their death does, of course, alter us.
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The only true paradise is paradise lost.