Quotes from Albert Camus, The Fall

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.