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’s Quotes On Topics
Personal Philosophy | Risk Timing | Added World | Hope | Social Identity | Impurity | Fictitious Testimony | Self | Lying | Thought Habit | Intense Feelings | Poetic Discovery | Scent | Prudence | Emotional Extremes | Desire Awakening | Loves Lived | New Life | Unending Thoughts | Foreign | More
More Marcel Proust Quotes
“Now, in one of those utterly physical moments, when the soul takes a backseat to the digesting stomach, the skin enjoying a recent ablution and some fine linen, the mouth smoking, the eyes reveling in bare shoulders and bright lights, he repeated his prayer more indolently, doubting a miracle that would upset the psychological law of his fickleness, which was as impossible to flout as the physical laws of weight or death.” Marcel Proust
Physicality, Soul Moments, Psychological Law, Sensory Indulgence, Fickle Nature, Inevitable Laws
Marcel Proust Physicality, Soul Moments, Psychological Law, Sensory Indulgence, Fickle Nature, Inevitable Laws“Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid’s confinement.” Marcel Proust
Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change
Marcel Proust Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change“Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Suffering, Lack, Man, Mental Escape, Emotional Pain
Marcel Proust Imagination, Suffering, Lack, Man, Mental Escape, Emotional Pain“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“The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us.” Marcel Proust
Universe, Truth, Shared Experience, Personal Perspective, Cosmic Paradox, Diverse Reality
Marcel Proust Universe, Truth, Shared Experience, Personal Perspective, Cosmic Paradox, Diverse Reality“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the most unpredictable of all, a life in which it can rain sulphur and pitch a moment after the sunniest spell and where, without having the courage to learn from our misfortunes, we immediately start building again on the slopes of the crater which can only spew out catastrophe.” Marcel Proust
Love, Disaster, Moments, Life, Unpredictable Romance, Emotional Extremes
Marcel Proust Love, Disaster, Moments, Life, Unpredictable Romance, Emotional Extremes“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.” Marcel Proust
Nobility, Ego, Inner Aspect, Human Feelings, Reflection, Perception
Marcel Proust Nobility, Ego, Inner Aspect, Human Feelings, Reflection, Perception“If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.” Marcel Proust
Death, Love, Memory, Childhood, Transformation, Life Experiences
Marcel Proust Death, Love, Memory, Childhood, Transformation, Life Experiences“I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.” Marcel Proust
Army, Formation, Human Emotions, Steady Progress, Collective Mindset, Emotional Shifts
Marcel Proust Army, Formation, Human Emotions, Steady Progress, Collective Mindset, Emotional Shifts“Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.” Marcel Proust
Love Absence, Emotional Complexity, Harshness, Relational Success, Personal Traits, Interaction Dynamics
Marcel Proust Love Absence, Emotional Complexity, Harshness, Relational Success, Personal Traits, Interaction Dynamics“The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.” Marcel Proust
Paradoxes, Prejudices, Fashion Grace, Societal Trends, Temporal Shifts, Moral Evolution
Marcel Proust Paradoxes, Prejudices, Fashion Grace, Societal Trends, Temporal Shifts, Moral Evolution“A doctor who doesn’t say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.” Marcel Proust
Doctor, Wisdom, Patient Care, Medical Insights, Humor, Restraint
Marcel Proust Doctor, Wisdom, Patient Care, Medical Insights, Humor, Restraint“Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.” Marcel Proust
Art, Outside, World, Forms, Expanding Perspective, Creative Freedom
Marcel Proust Art, Outside, World, Forms, Expanding Perspective, Creative Freedom“What we feel is the only thing that exists for us, and we project it into the past, into the future, without letting ourselves be stopped by the fictitious barriers of death.” Marcel Proust
Feelings, Existence, Past Projection, Future Emotions, Fictitious Barriers, Beyond Death
Marcel Proust Feelings, Existence, Past Projection, Future Emotions, Fictitious Barriers, Beyond Death“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.” Marcel Proust
Theories, Work, Object, Price, Artistic Simplicity, Creative Value
Marcel Proust Theories, Work, Object, Price, Artistic Simplicity, Creative Value“Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.” Marcel Proust
Great Art, Life Disappointment, Emotional Fulfillment, Artistic Process, Insightful Creation, Shifting Perception
Marcel Proust Great Art, Life Disappointment, Emotional Fulfillment, Artistic Process, Insightful Creation, Shifting Perception“Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Marcel Proust
Proust, Tolstoy, Great Novelist, Literary Comparison, History, Influence
Marcel Proust Proust, Tolstoy, Great Novelist, Literary Comparison, History, Influence“We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.” Marcel Proust
Death, Obituary, Unexpected Passing, Hidden Causes, Life Fragility, Mortality Awareness
Marcel Proust Death, Obituary, Unexpected Passing, Hidden Causes, Life Fragility, Mortality Awareness