Marcel Proust Quotes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

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

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.

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

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.

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

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