Albert Camus Quotes

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I shudder when relating it.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

So we become alive in a time of fear.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

Stress is a form of suffering.

Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Under the seams runs the pain.

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.