Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
Illness, Pain, Doctor, Human Response, Knowledge, Obedience
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Emotional Fragility | Mutual Affection | Quiet Presence | Selflessness Value | Idleness | Follies | Essential Calm | Unending Thoughts | Eternal Significance | Living Moments | Relationship Barrier | Redemption | Literary Value | Beliefs | Desire Formation | Lost Potential | Quiet Affection | Hidden Suffering | Thought | Literary Escape | More
More Marcel Proust Quotes
“Knowing a thing does not always mean preventing a thing, but at least the things we know, we hold, if not in our hands, at least in our minds where we can arrange them as we like, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power over them.” Marcel Proust
Knowledge, Power, Mind Arrangement, Mental Illusion, Perceived Control, Inner Perception
Marcel Proust Knowledge, Power, Mind Arrangement, Mental Illusion, Perceived Control, Inner Perception“The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.” Marcel Proust
Creation, Discovery, Individual Experience, World View, Life Changes, Philosophy
Marcel Proust Creation, Discovery, Individual Experience, World View, Life Changes, Philosophy“Il faudrait choisir de cesser de souffrir ou de cesser d’aimer.” Marcel Proust
Love, Suffering, Emotional Choice, Painful Love, Duality Of Feelings, Personal Struggle
Marcel Proust Love, Suffering, Emotional Choice, Painful Love, Duality Of Feelings, Personal Struggle“The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtain access to their divine form and thus joyfully to people our lives with divinities.” Marcel Proust
Art, Living, Suffering Steps, Divine Form, Joyful Connections, Transcendent Growth
Marcel Proust Art, Living, Suffering Steps, Divine Form, Joyful Connections, Transcendent Growth“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, Other People, Faint Connection, Mortal Reflection, Emotional Distance
Marcel Proust Affection, Dying, Other People, Faint Connection, Mortal Reflection, Emotional Distance“That translucent alabaster of our memories.” Marcel Proust
Alabaster, Memories, Translucent, Our, Fragile Nostalgia, Gentle Reflection
Marcel Proust Alabaster, Memories, Translucent, Our, Fragile Nostalgia, Gentle Reflection“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Marcel Proust
Decisions, Final, Mind, Last, Temporary State, Fleeting Judgment
Marcel Proust Decisions, Final, Mind, Last, Temporary State, Fleeting Judgment“Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Landscapes, Eyes, New Perspectives, Changed Vision, Personal Growth, Transformative Insight
Marcel Proust Landscapes, Eyes, New Perspectives, Changed Vision, Personal Growth, Transformative Insight“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.” Marcel Proust
Illness, Body, Different Kingdom, Physical Chains, Self-Recognition, Mental Divide
Marcel Proust Illness, Body, Different Kingdom, Physical Chains, Self-Recognition, Mental Divide“When our mistress is alive, a great part of the thoughts which form what we call our loves come to us during the hours when she is not by our side. Thus we acquire the habit of having as the object of our meditation an absent person, and one who, even if she remains absent for a few hours only, during those hours is no more than a memory. And so death does not make any great difference.” Marcel Proust
Absent Love, Memory Habit, Emotional Reflection, Loss Mediation, Thought Absence, Temporal Separation
Marcel Proust Absent Love, Memory Habit, Emotional Reflection, Loss Mediation, Thought Absence, Temporal Separation“My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play.” Marcel Proust
Quaint Face, Piano, Unconventional Beauty, Personal Pleasures, Sentimental Value, Unique Appeal
Marcel Proust Quaint Face, Piano, Unconventional Beauty, Personal Pleasures, Sentimental Value, Unique Appeal“It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.” Marcel Proust
Beauty, Happiness, Pleasure Possibility, Promised Joy, Aesthetic Appeal, Emotional Connection
Marcel Proust Beauty, Happiness, Pleasure Possibility, Promised Joy, Aesthetic Appeal, Emotional Connection“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.” Marcel Proust
Pleasures, Photographs, Inner Darkroom, Love Absence, Memory Development, Forbidden Reflections
Marcel Proust Pleasures, Photographs, Inner Darkroom, Love Absence, Memory Development, Forbidden Reflections“We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.” Marcel Proust
Novelty, Perception, Sensibility, Change, Habit, Experiential Learning
Marcel Proust Novelty, Perception, Sensibility, Change, Habit, Experiential Learning“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.” Marcel Proust
Habit, Fixity, Direct Proportion, Habit Formation, Behavioral Patterns, Routine Absurdity
Marcel Proust Habit, Fixity, Direct Proportion, Habit Formation, Behavioral Patterns, Routine Absurdity“We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.” Marcel Proust
Men, Love, Soldiers Churches, Heroic Gesture, Emotional Priority, Value Reflection
Marcel Proust Men, Love, Soldiers Churches, Heroic Gesture, Emotional Priority, Value Reflection“After the suicide of my thoughts, they admired my intelligence; they doted on my mind. My parched imagination, my dried-up sensitivity were enough for the people who were the thirstiest for an intellectual life – their thirst being as artificial and mendacious as the source from which they believed they were quenching it!” Marcel Proust
Thoughts, Intelligence, Imagination, Intellectual Thirst, False Appreciation, Mental Fatigue
Marcel Proust Thoughts, Intelligence, Imagination, Intellectual Thirst, False Appreciation, Mental Fatigue“As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.” Marcel Proust
Jealousy, Deception, Relationships, Challenge, Justification, Emotional Triggers
Marcel Proust Jealousy, Deception, Relationships, Challenge, Justification, Emotional Triggers“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years – and it opens.” Marcel Proust
Illumination, Rescue, Unconscious Discovery, Kingdom Entry, Last Hope, Hidden Opportunity
Marcel Proust Illumination, Rescue, Unconscious Discovery, Kingdom Entry, Last Hope, Hidden Opportunity“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.” Marcel Proust
Bird, Solitude, Long Note, Unanimous Silence, Eternal Moment, Nature Symphony
Marcel Proust Bird, Solitude, Long Note, Unanimous Silence, Eternal Moment, Nature Symphony