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Marcel Proust Quotes

«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
«It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.»
«His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness»
«The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.»
«A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.»
«A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped»
«The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself»
«Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.»
«Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Illness | Keywords: doctors, heeded
«It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused»

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