Quotes by Proust, Marcel

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. >>

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man c >>

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but grad >>

Quotations about Bed

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidentia >>

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of be >>

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against >>

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Proust, Marcel