The Plague Quotes

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:life knowledge memory

“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:life thought

“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:death pain

“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:death equality

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:happiness suffering eternity

“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:truth silence

“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:freedom liberty

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:understanding good evil ignorance

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:stupidity

“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:world

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