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Sodom and Gomorrah QUOTES

Sodom and Gomorrah QUOTES

1 " After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

2 " It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

3 " The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

4 " ...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which otherwise we should know nothing. A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. An unfailing memory is not a very powerful incentive to the study of the phenomena of memory. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

5 " For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

6 " A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man ever dream of making, I do not say great discoveries, but even minute observations upon sleep? He barely knows that he does sleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. A memory without fault is not a very powerful incentive to studying the phenomena of memory. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

7 " The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

8 " We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

9 " His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

10 " In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

11 " There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

12 " Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's so tedious, writing letters!' In the end it was life itself that she declared to us was a bore, without one quite knowing from where she was taking her term of comparison. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

13 " It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

14 " But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

15 " ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

16 " Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

17 " ...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

18 " Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

19 " For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah

20 " Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say we), we emerge prostrate, without a thought, a we that is void of content. "

― Marcel Proust , Sodom and Gomorrah