Albert Camus Quotes
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But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.
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They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
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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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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
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Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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It was in Spain that my generation learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
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This is the century of fear.
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Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.