Marcel Proust Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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'

• 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”

• Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Eye, Love Is

  Marcel Proust (1981). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, New York : Random House

• I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Past, Survival

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4860, Delphi Classics

• Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, People, Imagine

  Marcel Proust (2003). “The Guermantes way”, ePenguin

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