Suffering Quotes by Albert Camus

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

— Albert Camus

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

— Albert Camus

“Every excess decreases vitality and thus suffering.”

— Albert Camus

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

Suffering gives us no special rights.

— Albert Camus

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain.…

— Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

— Albert Camus

“The feeling that we are all neglected and lonely but not so lonely that "others" do not see us in trouble, saves…

— Albert Camus

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer…

— Albert Camus

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

— Albert Camus

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

— Albert Camus

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

— Albert Camus

“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has…

— Albert Camus

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share…

— Albert Camus

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts…

— Albert Camus

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,…

— Albert Camus

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can…

— Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…

— Albert Camus

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long…

— Albert Camus

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a…

— Albert Camus

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep…

— Albert Camus

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality…

— Albert Camus

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way.…

— Albert Camus

Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such…

— Albert Camus

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's…

— Albert Camus

“Our task of man is to find the few formulas that will assuage the infinite anguish of free souls. We have to…

— Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone…

— Albert Camus

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

— Albert Camus

“The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with…

— Albert Camus

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything…

— Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

— Albert Camus

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a…

— Albert Camus

“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real…

— Albert Camus

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,…

— Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,…

— Albert Camus

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is…

— Albert Camus

“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild…

— Albert Camus

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order…

— Albert Camus