Marcel Proust Quotes

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

Marcel Proust

Quotes to Explore

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

Gagan Narang
- Kids
- Bridge
- Transition
Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
- Water
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain
- Talent
- Possess
- Anxious
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- People
- Time
- World
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Katharine Hepburn
- People
- Love
- Fall
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Life
- Past
- Confused