People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man shoul…

Marcel Proust
245 citations
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus. ✨ Marcel Proust Swann’s Way, W. W. Norton & Company
Death Humanity Love
18

More Author Quotes

Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the seamy side of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents … ▶
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Vintage
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Sea … ▶
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ✨ Marcel … ▶
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, mo … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes