Marcel Proust Quotes

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.

One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, 'You don't truly know a person until they don't get what they want. That's when they show you who they are.' You wouldn't think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.