Albert Camus Quotes About Heaven

• Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Struggle, Eye

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

• May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Heaven, Pedestal

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

• We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

  Albert Camus

  Race, Heaven, Cost

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.81, Vintage

• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

• The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Heaven, Kind, Life Is

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

• Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Race, Heaven

• The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.60, Vintage

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