Albert Camus Quotes on Love

7 quotes

  1. Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d'abord a leur avantage, puis a leur desavantage.

  2. Let's not beat around the bush; I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

  3. In certain men, the fire of eternity consuming them is great enough for them to burn in it the very heart of those closest to them.

  4. No great work has ever been based on hatred or contempt... Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

  5. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

  6. The most painful thing to bear is seeing a mockery made of what one loves.

  7. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

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