Albert Camus Quotes About Poverty

• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Practice, Generosity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Family First, Poverty, Firsts

• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Poverty, Values

  "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Men, Voice

• In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

  Albert Camus

  Past, Oil, Silence

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.15, Vintage

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