Albert Camus The Fall Quotes

#1. On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born.

Albert Camus

#2. I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of 'The Just Judges'".

Albert Camus

#3. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus

#4. Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Elbert Hubbard

#5. Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

Anna Godbersen

#6. I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the papers. After that robust description, I should guess there will be no more to say on the subject.

Albert Camus

#7. I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.

Donald Trump

#8. So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.

Albert Camus

#9. He takes my hand. Intertwines our fingers. Offers me a smile that manages to kiss my heart.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!

Albert Camus

#11. We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

Albert Camus

#12. If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Albert Camus

#14. You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.

Albert Camus

#15. Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.

Albert Camus

#16. Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

Johnny Depp

#17. What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

#18. There was a time when I didn't at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Albert Camus

#19. My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

#20. The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Albert Camus

#21. The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

Gregory Benford

#23. He'd never treated her like a lady. He'd treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.

Courtney Milan

#24. It is necessary to fall in love ... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus