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Marcel Proust Quotes about Time

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust
Change, Time, People

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust
Leadership, Sports, Time
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust
Time, Lying, Literature
Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

Marcel Proust
Time, Sleep, Men

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Marcel Proust
Time, Mistake, Friendly
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2157, Jester House Publishing

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Marcel Proust
Life, Time, Moving
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.466, Jester House Publishing

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Marcel Proust
Time, Moving, Reading

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