Albert Camus Quotes
-
…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.
-
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
-
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
-
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
-
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
-
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.
-
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.
-
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
-
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
-
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.
-
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
-
Find your happiness in yourself.
-
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-
The one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, playing.
-
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
-
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
-
He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
-
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
-
What doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger.
-
With rebellion, awareness is born.
-
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
-
Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
-
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
-
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.