Albert Camus Despair Quotations

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.