Marcel Proust Quotes

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

~ Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

~ Marcel Proust

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

~ 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

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

~ Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

~ Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

~ Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~ Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

~ Marcel Proust