Albert Camus Quotes About Pain
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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
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People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
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There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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