black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness Love
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUST

Human Love Nature
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.
MARCEL PROUST

Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUST

Illusion Science Space
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST

Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
MARCEL PROUST

Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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

Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUST

Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUST

Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUST

Moments Wait
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUST

Inspirational Ourselves Tears
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Sound Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUST

Philosophy Photograph
Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUST

Desire One Liner

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes