Quotes from Albert Camus, The Plague

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.