Marcel Proust Quotes

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Marcel Proust

• Life
• Philosophy
• Intonation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
  • Will
  • Watch

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Work
  • School
  • Myself

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jesus

• Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Boy

• Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

  

  Clarissa Ward
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pain
  • Language
  • Grief

• 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • Intonation