Albert Camus Quotes About Soul

• When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Suffering, Too Much

• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

• If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

  Albert Camus

  Mistake, Believe, Long

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

• In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

  Albert Camus

  Art, Dark, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.15, Vintage

• The soul of a murderer is blind

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Blind, Murderer

• 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

• On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Ignorance, Men

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

• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

  Albert Camus

  Rivers, Talking, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Determined, Manage

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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