Albert Camus Quotes
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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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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
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We're going forward, but nothing changes.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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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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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
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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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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.