black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUST

Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUST

Darkness Soul Tree
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUST

Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUST

Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUST

Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUST

Death Recovery Truth
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUST

Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST

Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUST

Illusion Science Space
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

Imperfection Judgement View
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUST

Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST

Destination See Way

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes