It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
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More quotes by Marcel Proust
- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.