Inspiration Quote by Marcel Proust — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say so we represent that hour to ourselves as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time, it never occurs to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned, or may signify that death — or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again — may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon every hour of which has already been allotted to some occupation. You make a point of taking your drive every day so that in a month’s time you will have had the full benefit of the fresh air; you have hesitated over which cloak you will take, which cabman to call, you are in the cab, the whole day lies before you, short because you have to be at home early, as a friend is coming to see you; you hope that it will be as fine again to-morrow; and you have no suspicion that death, which has been making its way towards you along another plane, shrouded in an impenetrable darkness, has chosen precisely this day of all days to make its appearance, in a few minutes’ time, more or less, at the moment when the carriage has reached the Champs-Elysées.”

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

“Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.”

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“You'll see it when you believe it.”

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”