Albert Camus Quotes About Duty

• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

• There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Good Man, Goodness

• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

• In fact, it comes to this: 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 that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Meals

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.241, Vintage

• Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

  Albert Camus

  Family, Happiness, Mother

• Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Dream, Country

• Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

  Albert Camus

  Rights, Duty, Uncompromising

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.105, Vintage

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