Marcel Proust Famous Quotes
The true paradises are paradises we have lost.
"The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself."
"The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."
"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."
"And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying."
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."
"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
"A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."
"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
Marcel Proust Quotations
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Demosthenes
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
Charles Caleb Colton
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
Michael Friedman
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman
R W Plagge
"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."
George Orwell
"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine"
Abraham Kuyper