Marcel Proust Quotes

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

I was a sensitive boy.

I'm a sensitive person.

Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive.

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

The interior life is often stupid.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.