Marcel Proust Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Travel, Eye

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

• Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Success, Lying

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

• We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Thinking, Names

• Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Art, Disappointment

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.863, Delphi Classics

• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Taken, Adversity

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone". Book by Marcel Proust, 1925.

• 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

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

• In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Time, Moving

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.466, Jester House Publishing

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