“A loveless world is a dead world.”

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”

“Sufficiently entranced, she will pass the day somewhere else, in a world that understands her unelaborate hopes and grants to the lonely soul of the loveless, graceful peace.”

“It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.”

“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.”