Marcel Proust Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Kindness, Doctors

  Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

• 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

  Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

• Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

  Marcel Proust

  Depression, Art, Thinking

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921). George Seldes, The Great Thoughts, quotes Ramon Guthrie: "This passage was meant to show what fools people who are capable of uttering such idiocies are... . It is slap-stick irony that Proust puts into the mouth of a fool (Boulbon) in order to show what a fool he was."

• For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Health, Doctors

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

• Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

  Marcel Proust

  Illness

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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