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
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
— 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
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
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
There is not love of life without despair about life.
— 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
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
— Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus