“If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
— Albert Camus
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”
— Albert Camus
“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
— Albert Camus
“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”
— Albert Camus
“Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even great love.”
— Albert Camus
“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”
— Albert Camus
“For nothing in the world is it worth turning one's back on what one loves.”
— Albert Camus
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
— Albert Camus
“I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
— Albert Camus
“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
— 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
“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
— Albert Camus
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
— Albert Camus
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.”
— Albert Camus