Quotes by Proust, Marcel

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowle >>

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past l >>

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream les >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the >>

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseas >>

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and yo >>

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Proust, Marcel