Albert Camus Quotes

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.