Marcel Proust Quotes

“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:happiness

“the fact that the intellect is not the most subtle, powerful and appropriate instrument for grasping the truth is only one more reason in favour of starting with the intellect rather than with the intuitions of the unconscious or with...”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

topic:truth

“And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:time change memory

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:women control

“it is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:self others

“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:men difference

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fancy or two.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

topic:reality

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:change

“She belonged to that one of the two divisions of the human race in which the untiring curiosity which the other half feels about the people whom it does not know is replaced by an unfailing interest in the people whom it does.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:society people

“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:passion character

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