Life Quotes Quote by Albert Camus, The Plague — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”

“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that 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.”

“What am I dying for?”

“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”

“The only certainty life contains is death.”

“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it”