Albert Camus Quotes
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
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Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
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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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La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
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There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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'This is the truth,' we say. 'You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.'
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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
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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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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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Fate is not in man but around him.
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Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
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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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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
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Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.