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

“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.”

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

“In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.”

“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.”

““What if I mess up?"”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”