Marcel Proust Quotes About Regret

Quotes about: Regret

• The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Regret, Moments

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

• The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Regret, Years

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

• 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

• There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Memories

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.481, Yale University Press

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