Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

10-Jul-1871


France


Novelist

Marcel Proust or Valentin Loius Eugene Marcel Proust was a French essayist, novelist and critic, better known for his phenomenal work in ‘A la recherché temps perdu’ (In Search of lost time). The novel was pseudo autobiographical in nature, narrated in a stream-of-conscious style. Marcel Proust released several volumes of this novel as ‘Swann’s way’ and ‘Within a Budding grove’ and many more. He is considered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century by the English critics. He was an active member of the Parisian High society but started withdrawing himself from socializing due to his homosexuality and religion (as he was a Jew). His devoted a lot of his writing highlighting the absurdity and anomaly of human behavior coupled with an element of humor in them. We have curated some of the most famous Marcel Proust quotes from his writings, observations and his life. Here is a collection of Marcel Proust quotes on adultery, art, belief, books, character, death, desire, dreams, earth, emotions, fashion, friendship, giving, grief, happiness, history, life, learning, Inspirational, joy, knowledge, philosophy, and much more.

QUOTES BY Marcel Proust


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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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