Marcel Proust Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

  Marcel Proust

  Leadership, Sports, Time

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

• Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Change, Time, People

• 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

• I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Mistake, Friendly

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2157, Jester House Publishing

• 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

• Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Moving, Reading

• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Sleep, Men

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