Quotes from Albert Camus
A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
— Albert Camus
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
— Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
— Albert Camus
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
— Albert Camus
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
— Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
— Albert Camus
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
— Albert Camus
There is not love of life without despair about life.
— Albert Camus
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants
— Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
— Albert Camus