Marcel Proust Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Marcel Proust:

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Marcel Proust

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Marcel Proust

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Marcel Proust

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Marcel Proust

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Marcel Proust

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust