Marcel Proust Quotes about Suffering

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

Grieving, Suffering, Healed

"Remembrance of Things Past". Volume 3,

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Marcel Proust

Men, Imagination, Suffering

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Physicians, Certain

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.578, Wordsworth Editions

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Marcel Proust

Water, Soul, Suffering

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

Marcel Proust

Grief, Suffering, Foundation

Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?

Marcel Proust

Lying, Love Is, Suffering

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

Marcel Proust

Aunt, Two, Suffering

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Needs, States

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Would Be, Spirit

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

Truth, Suffering, World

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.854, Wordsworth Editions

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Littles, Might

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.949, Delphi Classics

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Attention, Neurosis

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

Moving, Mind, Suffering

Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.9, Vintage

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

Marcel Proust

Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing