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Marcel Proust Quotes about Lying

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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship,

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Memories, Lying, Men

Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

The heart does not lie.

Lying, Heart, Doe

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Motivational, Success, Lying

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Sweet, War, Lying

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time, Lying, Literature

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

Lying, Believe, Ends

Marcel Proust (2000). “Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1918-1922”

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

Real, Lying, Might

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Lying, Reality, Knowing

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.54, Modern Library

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Lying, Cease

Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

Lies are essential to humanity.

Lying, Humanity, Essentials

1925 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Albertine disparue'.

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

Art, Lying, Passion

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.300, Modern Library

How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?

Lying, Love Is, Suffering

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Life, Success, Lying

Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

Lying, Effort, Obscurity

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.276, Modern Library

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Lying, Rely Upon, Needs

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Lying, Men, Self

Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.30, Marcel Proust

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