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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Forgiveness
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
Colin Powell1937–2021
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922), Pt. II, Ch. 1
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ‘great changes.’
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Change
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: “Grief and Oblivion”
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: “Grief and Oblivion”
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
Marcel Proust1871–1922In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919)
- Change