Inspirational Quotations by Marcel Proust

  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in
    seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
    From Issue 117
  • The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic;
    the passions that we feel expand it,
    those that we inspire contract it;
    and habit fills up what remains.
    From Issue 240
  • The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic;
    the passions that we feel expand it,
    those that we inspire contract it;
    and habit fills up what remains.
    From Issue 242
  • The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic;
    the passions that we feel expand it,
    those that we inspire contract it;
    and habit fills up what remains.
    From Issue 292
  • It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
    Topic: Self-discovery
    From Issue 328
  • It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
    Topic: Perspective
    From Issue 333
  • 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.
    From Issue 380
  • Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
    From Issue 391
  • Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
    From Issue 408

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