Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”

“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”

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

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”