Marcel Proust Quotes

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Every white man seemed to have a great concern about time. We enjoyed time, they measured it…. Hours, minutes, and seconds were such small divisions of time that we never thought of them.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.