All ALBERT CAMUS Quotes about “Desire”

“I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.”
“If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.”
“That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3”
“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
“He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.”
“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
“What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.”
“Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.”
“In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.”
“Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.”

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