Marcel Proust Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

• In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Reality, Literature

• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Lying, Literature

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

• Love is a reciprocal torture.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Literature, Torture

• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Quality, Literature

• If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

  Marcel Proust

  Luxury, Trying, Literature

  Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1983). “Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903”, HarperCollins

• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Strength, Powerful

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, 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”

• Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Gambling, Doctors

• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

  Marcel Proust

  Change, Desire, Literature

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.817, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Grace, Prejudice

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Stupidity, Intellectual

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

• 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

• The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

  Marcel Proust

  Literature, Swiftness, Charm

  "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time".

• It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Dying, Literature

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

• A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Literature, Opinion

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

• People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, People, Different

• What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Profound, Literature

• The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

  Marcel Proust

  Teamwork, Literature, World

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

• Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

  Marcel Proust

  Years, Names, Two

• 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

• No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

  Marcel Proust

  Practice, Vices, Literature

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

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