Albert Camus Quotes about Running

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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Albert Camus

Running, Distance, Long

Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Albert Camus

Running, Ugly, Settling

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets, 1935-1942”

What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.

Albert Camus

Running, Cutting, Luxury

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.