Marcel Proust Quotes

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.