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

“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”

“I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it–our life–hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.”

“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”

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

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

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions”

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”