Marcel Proust Quotes

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

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• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• If a movie makes money, then it's a success.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Success

• The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Waiting

• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Why
  • Free
  • Feels

• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Novel

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Special
  • Cities
  • Attachment

• Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Roman Catholics
  • Papal
  • Edicts

• I have had a lot of success with failure

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Failure

• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Kind
  • Scary

• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Learned
  • Example

• Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Forever
  • Dying
  • Lucky

• Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffer
  • Intellect
  • Ills