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
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“An impression is for the writer what an experiment is for the scientist, except that for the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes it, and for the writer it comes afterwards.” Marcel Proust
Impression, Writer, Experiment, Scientist, Creative Comparison, Intellectual Process
Marcel Proust Impression, Writer, Experiment, Scientist, Creative Comparison, Intellectual Process“Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it.” Marcel Proust
Literature, Real Life, Clarified Existence, Ordinary People, Light Reflection, Artistic Life
Marcel Proust Literature, Real Life, Clarified Existence, Ordinary People, Light Reflection, Artistic Life“We see things but we don’t see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.” Marcel Proust
Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details
Marcel Proust Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details“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
Wisdom, Journey, Self-Discovery, Individual Growth, Lifelong Learning, Personal Insight
Marcel Proust Wisdom, Journey, Self-Discovery, Individual Growth, Lifelong Learning, Personal Insight“No doubt, having developed the habit, out of idleness, of each day putting off my work until the day after, I thought that death could be dealt with in the same way.” Marcel Proust
Procrastination, Idleness, Death Thoughts, Habitual Delay, Life Lessons, Reflection
Marcel Proust Procrastination, Idleness, Death Thoughts, Habitual Delay, Life Lessons, Reflection“The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.” Marcel Proust
Beauty, Images, Ideas, Reflection, Perception, Philosophy
Marcel Proust Beauty, Images, Ideas, Reflection, Perception, Philosophy“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...” Marcel Proust
Silence, Flowers, Living Things, Striking Presence, Natural Beauty, Quiet Solitude
Marcel Proust Silence, Flowers, Living Things, Striking Presence, Natural Beauty, Quiet Solitude“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement.” Marcel Proust
Nothing, Lives, Weight Past, Memory Real, Present Impact, Eternal Significance
Marcel Proust Nothing, Lives, Weight Past, Memory Real, Present Impact, Eternal Significance“How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?” Marcel Proust
Learn, Real, Inventing, Outside, Imaginative Thinking, Perceived Reality
Marcel Proust Learn, Real, Inventing, Outside, Imaginative Thinking, Perceived Reality“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.” Marcel Proust
Artist, Conversation, Sacrifice, Creative Time, Reality Exchange, Lost Potential
Marcel Proust Artist, Conversation, Sacrifice, Creative Time, Reality Exchange, Lost Potential“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.” Marcel Proust
Time, Truth, Spoken Falsehood, Reality Shift, Temporal Influence, Changing Perceptions
Marcel Proust Time, Truth, Spoken Falsehood, Reality Shift, Temporal Influence, Changing Perceptions“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“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.” Marcel Proust
Sleep Agony, Solitude, Emotional Isolation, Night Silence, Grief Presence, Mental Torture
Marcel Proust Sleep Agony, Solitude, Emotional Isolation, Night Silence, Grief Presence, Mental Torture“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“So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.” Marcel Proust
Ignorance, Self-Discovery, Entire Life, Reflection, Perception, Identity
Marcel Proust Ignorance, Self-Discovery, Entire Life, Reflection, Perception, Identity“May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.” Marcel Proust
Hope, Nature, Comfort, Sky, Dark Times, Emotional Strength
Marcel Proust Hope, Nature, Comfort, Sky, Dark Times, Emotional Strength“To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.” Marcel Proust
Suffering, Need, Organism, State, Emotional Adjustment, Sensory Adaptation
Marcel Proust Suffering, Need, Organism, State, Emotional Adjustment, Sensory Adaptation“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament.” Marcel Proust
Sea, Imagination, Soul, Striving, Nature’s Power, Endless Wonder
Marcel Proust Sea, Imagination, Soul, Striving, Nature’s Power, Endless Wonder