• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Marcel Proust

Related Topics

MomentsWait

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Marcel Proust Quotes

• 

  Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

  MARCEL PROUST
  BeautifulImaginationMenWomen
• 

  We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  MARCEL PROUST
  BelieveMindsetPhilosophyPossible
• 

  We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

  MARCEL PROUST
  ExperienceGriefHealingSuffering
• 

  An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

  MARCEL PROUST
  DeepSoundTime
• 

  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
  DreamInspirationalLoveTime
• 

  A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

  MARCEL PROUST
  DignityExistencePhotographyReality
• 

  There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  MARCEL PROUST
  BookHappinessLiveOurselvesReading
• 

  Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

  MARCEL PROUST
  ProgressRealityRoad
• 

  Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

  MARCEL PROUST
  DarknessSoulTree
• 

  Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

  MARCEL PROUST
  MemoriesOneselfPlace
• 

  Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  MARCEL PROUST
  BodyDepressionGriefHappinessMindsetPowerSympathy
• 

  We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

  MARCEL PROUST
  AfraidLyingMotivationalSuccessTruth
• 

  As 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.

  MARCEL PROUST
  FreedomLostMenScienceThinking
• 

  Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  MARCEL PROUST
  IntellectualIntelligentPeopleSpring
• 

  No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

  MARCEL PROUST
  HimselfMenMystery
• 

  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
  FeelingHabitInspirationalPassion