Albert Camus Quotes
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
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It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
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Avoir de l'argent c'est se libérer de l'argent.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.
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I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
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N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours.