Albert Camus Quotes
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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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The one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, playing.
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What doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger.
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?