Albert Camus Quotes about Suffering

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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Albert Camus

Soul, Suffering, Too Much

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Albert Camus

People, Suffering, Crowds

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Albert Camus

Men, Suffering, Cry

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Albert Camus

Doctors, Suffering, Taught

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Albert Camus

Suffering, Happiness And Love, Unhappy

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

Albert Camus

Pain, Suffering, Levels

Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.7, Vintage

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

Albert Camus

Pain, Choices, Suffering

Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.56, Vintage

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

Albert Camus

Mean, Long, Suffering

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Suffering gives us no special rights.

Albert Camus

Rights, Giving, Suffering

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

Albert Camus

Happiness, Two, Suffering

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Albert Camus

Men, Suffering, World

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.83, Vintage

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

Albert Camus

Writing, Suffering, Today

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Albert Camus

Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage