Stranger Albert Camus Quotes & Sayings

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes. — John Britt Daniel

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. — Albert Camus

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health. — Ashleigh Brilliant

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. — Samuel Johnson

The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it ... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid. — Olesya Rulin

There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms. — Ray Bradbury

Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness. — Nick Cave

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. — Albert Camus

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. — Albert Camus

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her. — Albert Camus

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people. — Lesley Howarth

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and — Oswald Chambers

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed. — Albert Camus

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults? — Albert Camus

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in? — Albert Camus

Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall. — Liane Moriarty

One cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this. — Albert Camus

I noticed that he laid stress on my "intelligence." It puzzled me rather why what would count as a good point in an ordinary person should be used against an accused man as an overwhelming proof of his guilt. — Albert Camus

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future. — Marianne Williamson

I replied that you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't at all dissatisfied with mine here. — Albert Camus

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. — Albert Camus

A lifestyle of love makes reigning sweet and the best — Sunday Adelaja

Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. — Albert Camus

And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me. — Albert Camus