Albert Camus Quotes About Prisons

• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

• To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Cutting, Men

• Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

  Albert Camus

  Cells, Sky, New Day

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

• And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Sleep, May

  Albert Camus (1982). “The stranger”

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