Quotes About The Stranger By Camus

#1. One cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Albert Camus

#2. The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Sarah Dessen

#3. No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Brian Greene

#4. Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Oscar Niemeyer

#5. ahead in the soft and sighing darkness

Winston Graham

#6. I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

Danny Trejo

#7. In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Albert Camus

#8. What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,

Dion Fortune

#9. A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

Albert Camus

#10. I noticed that he laid stress on my "intelligence." It puzzled me rather why what would count as a good point in an ordinary person should be used against an accused man as an overwhelming proof of his guilt.

Albert Camus

#11. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

#12. What is it?
Nothing. I had a bad dream.
What did you dream about?
Nothing.
Are you okay?
No.
He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.
I was crying. But you didnt wake up.
I'm sorry. I was just so tired.
I meant in the dream.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. I replied that you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't at all dissatisfied with mine here.

Albert Camus

#14. And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness.

Albert Camus

#15. I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter - yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!

Alexandre Dumas

#16. They spoke truth and a lot of people listened ... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

Michael Stipe

#17. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Albert Camus

#18. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

Martin O'Malley

#19. ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Albert Camus

#20. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.

Bret Easton Ellis

#21. I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Albert Camus

#22. Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

Albert Camus

#23. Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

Albert Camus

#24. An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.

Irene Tomkinson

#25. After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Albert Camus

#26. It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

Albert Camus

#27. How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

Albert Camus