Albert Camus Quotes About Habits

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Despair, Habit

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Atheism, Habit

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Travel, Old Habits

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Thinking, Race

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

• ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

  Albert Camus

  Firsts, Murder, Crime

• Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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