Marcel Proust Quotes

I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

People who know me, know who I am.

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.