If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.Fyodor Dostoevsky
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.Anton Chekhov
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
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.Marcel Proust
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.Marcel Proust
