Quotes about family
5 genuine quotes about family, by Camus, Gide and Lucretius, from works including The Stranger and Fruits of the Earth. Among the speakers: Meursault and Adam. Some are a character speaking, not the author: each entry says who speaks, and to whom.
- So great the evils to which religion could prompt!
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (55 BC), Book I, lines 95–101 (the quoted line is I.101); Leonard, Book I, “Proem”.
- Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.
Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary (1906), Last line (“At Eve’s Grave”), said by Adam.
- Today, my mother died.
Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942), Opening sentence (incipit), said by Meursault.
- Families, I hate you! Homes shut tight; doors closed again; jealous possessions of happiness.
André Gide, Fruits of the Earth (1897), Livre IV, Les Nourritures terrestres (1897).
- O salt sea, how much of your salt is the tears of Portugal!
Fernando Pessoa, Message (1934), Mensagem, Second part, Mar Portuguez; poem X, “Mar Portuguez”, first stanza (1934 edition, p. 64).