Famous Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
-- Marcel Proust

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
-- 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

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

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
-- Marcel Proust

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
-- Marcel Proust

The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
-- Marcel Proust

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".
-- Marcel Proust

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

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
-- Marcel Proust

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.
-- Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
-- Marcel Proust

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

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
-- Marcel Proust