proust Quotes

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

“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.”

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

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.”

“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.”

“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”