"Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
More by Albert Camus
“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.”
“At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.”
“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
More on Love
“Only love can keep anyone alive.”
“He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.”
“And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”
More on Desire
“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.”
“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined loveOf solitary beds, knew what they were,That passion could bring character enoughAnd pressed at midnighht in some public placeLive lips upon a plummet-measured face.”
“All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.”