Despair Quotes
There is not love of life without despair about life.
"There is not love of life without despair about life."— Albert Camus
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Meaning of this quote
Love of life can coexist with grief about its limits and fragility. Camus resists treating attachment and despair as mutually exclusive experiences.
Key takeaway:
Allow appreciation of life to coexist with awareness of its losses.
Origin of the quote
The Wrong Side and the Right Side (1937); recalled in Camus’s later preface.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe preface explicitly recalls the earlier sentence and comments critically on its youthful tone. The post uses a close translation variant.
Source:
Preface, Albert Camus
