Marcel Proust Quotes

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

Marcel Proust

• Friend
• Sky
• Falling

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• When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • You
  • Hell
  • Half

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Country
  • Child

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • God
  • Heart
  • Memory

• One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Why
  • Weird
  • Survival

• And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Rain
  • Clouds

• Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Mind
  • Faith

• Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Up
  • Believe
  • May

• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

  

  Learned Hand

• Are you expecting God to fill your needs? Are you asking him to do so - regularly, earnestly and persistently?

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God

• You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Kind
  • Friend
  • Forget

• I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Age

• I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Friend
  • Punk
  • Periods

• A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wife
  • Intimacy

• May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friend
  • Sky
  • Falling