Marcel Proust Quotes

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

I only remember the future.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn't. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Repetition doesn't really exist

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.