Prousts Remembrance Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. — Peter De Vries

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up. — Victor Hugo

I am a living soap opera. — Virginia Graham

You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must use it to hope on. Key to the dream country where all your people are whole again, and the gunboats can't reach you, and the Empire of Hate is rubble. You and your secret dream of freedom are the tidal wave. Keep watch, every night if you have to. As for sleeping, you can sleep when you're dead. — Paul Monette

She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no trouble giving something trifling — Jennifer DuBois

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing, not even a flicker of life in his face. — Alexandra Bracken

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. — Charles Spurgeon

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy. — Jo Brand

Valentines day are coming up and a German company has made chokolate in shapes of couples making love. I don't like them ... I don't want my chokolate to have more fun than me. — Jay Leno

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth

Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Bit by bit, man reduces to naught. — Akinwale Musa Oluseun