Marcel Proust Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Marcel Proust quotes, Marcel Proust sayings, and Marcel Proust proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. Marcel Proust
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. Marcel Proust
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. 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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Marcel Proust
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom. 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
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. Marcel Proust
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again! Marcel Proust
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. 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
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. Marcel Proust
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. Marcel Proust
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. Marcel Proust
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. Marcel Proust