Proust Quotes

We always end up doing the thing we are second best at. - Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. - Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. - Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. - Marcel Proust

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. - Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. - Marcel Proust

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind. - Marcel Proust

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. - Marcel Proust