The Stranger Quotes

“Yes, this was the evening hour when—how long ago it seemed!—I always felt so well content with life. Then, what awaited me was a night of easy, dreamless sleep. This was the same hour, but with a difference; I was returning to a cell, and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day. And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Era como se aquela grande onda de raiva tivesse me lavado, me esvaziado de esperança e, olhando para o céu escuro coberto com suas estrelas, pela primeira vez, eu coloquei meu coração aberto para a benigna indiferença do universo.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Söyleyecek fazla bir şeyim hiçbir zaman olmadı. Ben de sustum.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Then I blame myself every time for not having paid enough attention to accounts of executions. A man should always take an interest in those thing. You never know what might happen.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“İnsan her şeyi kaybetmeli ki, her şeyi alabilsin.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“لقد أدركت أنه إذا قدر لي أن أعيش داخل جذع شجرة جافة من ‏‏غير أن يكون ثمة أي شيء يشغلني سوى النظر الى السماء ‏التي ‏تعلو رأسي ‏
فإنني حتما كنت سأتعود على ذلك بالتدريج .. ولانتظرت ‏مرور ‏الطيور والتقاء السحاب أيضا..‏”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but just in time, I remembered that I had killed a man.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I thought about how peculiar she was but forgot about her a few minutes later.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger