Marcel Proust Quotes, Thoughts and images

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Desire makes everything blossom

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

To the pure all things are pure!

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

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