Marcel Proust Quotes

Westmead Council Roadside Garden

May 2009
"Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom." ~Marcel Proust

Photography: Lily on her Pacific Jewel Cruise
January 19-29, 2010

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees." ~Marcel Proust French novelist and one of the great literary figures of the 20th century (1871-1922)

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"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life." ~Marcel Proust

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." ~Marcel Proust

“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.” ~Marcel Proust, "In Search of Lost Time." From Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." ~Marcel Proust

"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now." -Marcel Proust from Read, Love and Learn

"Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces." ~Marcel Proust

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time." ~Marcel Proust

"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions." ~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

"Love is space and time measured by the heart." ~Marcel Proust

"My destination is no longer a place, but a new way of seeing." ~Marcel Proust

"One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be." ~Marcel Proust

"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter." ~Marcel Proust

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

"Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present." ~Marcel Proust

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." ~Marcel Proust

"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance." ~Marcel Proust

"The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love." ~Marcel Proust

"The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains." ~Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 — November 18, 1922) in Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2: Within a Budding Grove

"The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~Marcel Proust

"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory." ~Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them." ~Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full." ~Marcel Proust

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we must come at last to regard the world." ~Marcel Proust

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." -Marcel Proust


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