Marcel Proust Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

• There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Long, Sorrow

• Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

• There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Dust, Leaving

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2508, Jester House Publishing

• Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Heart, Ideas

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.315, Modern Library

• We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Suffering, Foundation

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

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