Marcel Proust Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Familiar, Truest

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

• There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Suffering, World

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.854, Wordsworth Editions

• Truth is a point of view about things.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Views, Truth Is

• The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Character, Waiting

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.80, Modern Library

• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Ideas, Giving

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic

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