When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
-
-
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUST -
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUST -
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUST -
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUST -
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST -
Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUST -
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUST -
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in 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 -
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUST -
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUST -
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUST -
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
MARCEL PROUST -
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUST -
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
MARCEL PROUST