“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on all sides, accosted now and then, and gradually made his way into less crowded streets, he was thinking it has no importance whether such things have or have not a meaning; all we need consider is the answer given to man's hope.”

“When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.”

“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.”

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”

“The most intimate moments in the world don't happen in nightclubs or backstage or even on the movie screen. They were moments like this: sitting silently, comfortably, holding hands on a darkened bedroom floor.”