Albert Camus The Plague Quotes

#1. We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Mac Thornberry

#2. Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time and perspective to produce books as well-written as those by anyone who ever lived.
-David Whyte

David Whyte

#3. Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'

Drew Gilpin Faust

#4. No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

Albert Camus

#5. There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Albert Camus

#6. Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

Randy Quaid

#7. But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

Albert Camus

#8. They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Albert Camus

#9. What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Albert Camus

#10. Music gives 'wings' to words.

Yip Harburg

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

Albert Camus

#12. That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.

Albert Camus

#13. Indeed, the one thing these prophecies had in common was that, ultimately, all were reassuring. Unfortunately, though, the plague was not.

Albert Camus

#14. It was plague. We've had the plague here.' You'd almost think they expected to be given medals for it. But what does that mean
'plague'? Just life, no more than that.

Albert Camus

#15. ... there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

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#16. One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Paul Mazursky

#17. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Albert Camus

#18. They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine

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#19. The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

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#20. I've been thinking it over for years. While we
loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't
love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only
I couldn't. - Grant

Albert Camus

#21. The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death.

Albert Camus

#22. It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time.

Albert Camus

#23. Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Albert Camus

#24. Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Albert Camus

#25. And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Albert Camus

#26. I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

Kyle MacLachlan