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Quote by Marcel Proust

“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.”

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

“A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet through his own head is called a suicide; but for those who give freedom to their pitiful, soul-debasing passions in the holy days of spring and youth there is no name in man's vocabulary. After the bullet follows the peace of the grave: ruined youth is followed by years of grief and painful recollections. He who has profaned his spring will understand the present condition of my soul. I am not yet old, or grey, but I no longer live. Psychiaters tell us that a solider, who was wounded at Waterloo, went mad, and afterwards assured everybody - and believed it himself - that he had died at Waterloo, and that what was now considered to be him was only his shadow, a reflection of the past. I am now experiencing something resembling this semi-death..”

Feelings Sadness Emotions Mental Health Mental Illness Mentality

Book:The Shooting Party

Source: The Shooting Party

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

Sadness Sorrow

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”

Grief Sadness

Author:Pericles

“Sono Hari Seldon, ex primo ministro dell'imperatore Cleon I, professore emerito di Psicostoria all'Università di Streeling su Trantor, direttore del progetto di Ricerca psicostorica, direttore esecutivo dell'Enciclopedia galattica, creatore di Fondazione. Lo so, tutto questo sembra molto pomposo. Ho fatto molte cose nei miei ottantuno anni, e sono stanco.”

Inspirational Quotes

Book:The Foundation Trilogy

Source: The Foundation Trilogy

“Every single day I find it hard to say I could be yours alone You will see someday That all along the way I was yours to hold.”

Love Sadness

Author:Skillet

“The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.”

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Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.”

Language Sadness Trieste

Book:Hot Milk

Source: Hot Milk

“-Ouve esta música? É a expressão da minha vida: uma partitura admirável, estragada por um horrível, por um infame executante...”

Life Sadness Depression

Book:A Confissão de Lúcio

Source: A Confissão de Lúcio

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