Albert Camus Quotes

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Along with any great joy comes a good deal of anxiety and nervousness.

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

Fear is fear of fear, I think.

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

There's so much to be afraid of.