Albert Camus Quotes

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.